Best 100 quotes in «geography quotes» category

To have followed the speculative vision of Behaim in his famous globe, or of others like him, would have been disastrous, even though their work represents the cream of fifteenth-century mapmaking and was known to Columbus. Indeed, as one commentator has observed, if his chart had been based on the Behaim scenario, 'Columbus could not even have known of the whereabouts of the New World, much less discover it.' Yet not only does he seem to have known where he was going but, on some accounts, when he was going to get there: 'Now and then Pinzón and Columbus consult and deliberate -- mutually discuss their route. The map or chart passes not infrequently from the one captain to the other; the observations and calculations as to their position are daily recorded, their conduct and course for the night duly agreed upon. On the eve of their due arrival Columbus issues the order to stay the course of the armada, to shorten sail, because he knew that he was close to the New World and was afraid of going ashore during the obscurity of the night ... How does he know the place and the hour? 'His Genius' says the Columbus legend in explanation. But the Map? The critics will ask, what did it contain? Whose was it? What did that map contain that was so frequently passed from Columbus to Pinzón during the voyage?' I've presented my case that what the map may have contained was an accurate but ancient, and indeed antediluvian, representation of the coast and islands of Central America, notably the north-south-oriented Great Bahama Bank island, which Columbus -- no less ignorant than any of his contemporaries about the existence of the Americas -- took to be an accurate map of part of the coast of China and the islands of Japan.

To lovers of adventure and novelty, Africa displays a most ample field.

Topography defines place and the human situation therein.

War does one good—it teaches people geography.

We who live under heaven, we of the clovery kindgom, we middlesins people have often watched the sky overreaching the land.

We’ve gone from a planet ruled by natural geography to political geography to kinetically functional geography to a cyber geography that is ruled by ideological variation rather than politically constructed boarders.

What poor, mean trash this whole business of human virtue is! A mere matter, for the most part, of latitude and longitude, and geographical position, acting with natural temperament. The greater part is nothing but an accident.

When you look at a map you’ll be struck by the fact that Chile is the longest and thinnest country in the world. While averaging only slightly more than 100 miles wide from west to east, it’s nearly 3,000 miles long from north to south: almost as long as the U.S. is wide. Geographically, Chile is isolated from other countries by the high chain of the Andes in the east separating it from Argentina, and by the world’s most barren desert in the north separating it from Bolivia and Peru.

When you get mentally free, you are free. The rest is just geography!

Your lack of geographical knowledge is truly astounding.

British crime stories tend to be very internal, psychological, claustrophobic, very limited in terms of geography.

A man's ethnic identity has more to do with a personal awareness than with geography.

An island is a fixed and finite piece of geography, and usually the whole place has been carved up and claimed.

An art that heals and protects its subject is a geography of scars.

Chris Martin looks like a geography teacher.

Geography does not define you - love does.

Geography blended with time equals destiny.

Geography is the subject which holds the key to our future

George W. Bush has gathered around him upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography.

Coming out involves varying degrees of difficulty that are affected by class, race, religion, and geography.

Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.

I believe that the physical is the geography of the being.

History is a compass that you locate yourself on the map of human geography, politically, culturally, financially.

In our changing world nothing changes more than geography.

If as individuals we can improve the geography only slightly, if at all, perhaps the more appropriately scaled subject for reshaping is ourselves.

I like science - geography, meteorology, cosmology.

If geography is prose, maps are iconography.

My wound is geography. It is also my anchorage, my port of call.

Making sure that the geography and timelines work is always the hardest part of writing. But you owe it to the readers to get it right!

Material existence is entirely founded on a phantom realm of mind, whose nature and geography are unexplored.

In the U.K., we have the best geography teachers in the world!

It must be hard for humans, forever floundering through inconvenient geography. Humans are always lost. It's a basic characteristic. It explains a lot about them.

I was a daydreamer, and there is a lot of history and geography and science I missed out on because I was in my head. And I regret that.

[L]ove, having no geography, knows no boundaries.

Mathematics was hard, dull work, I thought; geography pleased me more. For my other studies, as well as for dancing, I was quite enthusiastic.

Physical geography and geology are inseparable scientific twins.

Oh I'm in love with the janitor's boy, And the janitor's boy loves me; He's going to hunt for a desert isle In our geography.

No choice we can make as a nation lies between our history and our geography. We can hardly change either of them. They are immutable. The only choice we can make as a nation is the choice about our future.

There is a geography of the human spirit, common to all peoples.

The cell, too, has a geography, and its reactions occur in colloidal apparatus, of which the form, and the catalytic activity of its manifold surfaces, must efficiently contribute to the due guidance of chemical reactions.

The biggest difference between England and America is that England has history, while America has geography.

The fake Zionist [regime] will disappear from the landscape of geography.

There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outline all our lives.

What, after all, is more real to us than the geography of our childhoods?

To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.

What makes a nation in the beginning is a good piece of geography.

All Authors come from the unified countrynent known as Australia. Authors live in the future where love is external.

A high upland common was this moor, two miles from end to end, and full of furze and bracken. There were no trees and not a house, nothing but a line of telegraph poles following the road, sweeping with rigidity from north to south; nailed upon one of them a small scarlet notice to stonethrowers was prominent as a wound. On so high and wide a region as Shag Moor the wind always blew, or if it did not quite blow there was a cool activity in the air. The furze was always green and growing, and, taking no account of seasons, often golden. Here in summer solitude lounged and snoozed; at other times, as now, it shivered and looked sinister. ("The Higgler")

A guerra é a forma de Deus en­si­nar ge­o­grafia aos ame­ri­ca­nos.

A place is a storied landscape, somewhere that has human meaning. But another thing we have started to learn, or relearn, is that places aren’t just about people; that they reflect our attempt to grasp and make sense of the non-human; the land and its many inhabitants that are forever around and beyond us. It can be an unnerving exchange, especially when what we hope to see is something purely natural, and what we find instead is our own reflection. Shorelines are waxing and waning with increasing speed, and old kingdoms, like Doggerland, as well as new ones in the once-inaccessible Arctic, are being revealed, demanding that we look at the landscape, and at the map, in new ways; as something in motion, unmoored by tradition.