The South Pacific is not a paradise, in the sense that Eden wasn’t either. There are always apples and snakes. But it is a wonderful place to live. The green vales of Tahiti, the hills...

God created war so that Americans would learn geography.

When I saw that Moses’ version of the Genesis of the world did not fit sufficiently in many ways with Aristotle and the rest of the philosophers, I began to have doubts about the truth...

Can you see the sunset real good on the West side? You can see it on the East side too.

We need to try to live in sync with our geography.

The decline of geography in academia is easy to understand: we live in an age of ever-increasing specialization, and geography is a generalist’s discipline. Imagine the poor geographer trying to explain to someone at a...

Three or four times only in my youth did I glimpse the Joyous Isles, before they were lost to fogs, depressions, cold fronts, ill winds, and contrary tides… I mistook them for adulthood. Assuming they...

The ancient paused for a moment, as if his strength were failing. Yet I sensed that there was more to tell. Looking deep into my eyes, he whispered: ‘The Gond kingdoms have fallen, their people...

I sketched North America onto my crude and now crowded map, and Hao was astounded to learn that it was not a piece of Europe, as he had always assumed.

And the geography of the thing–the geography of them–was completely and hopelessly wrong.

Dreams are our only geography—our native land.

I like geography. I like to know where places are.

Anatomy is to physiology as geography is to history; it describes the theatre of events.

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

You want a lesson? I’ll give you a lesson. How about a geography lesson? My father’s from Puerto Rico. My mother’s from El Salvador. And neither one of those is Mexico.

Don Quixote is not just Don Quixote; La Mancha is not just geography; It is our personal territory—Terra Nostra.

It is the relationship between the physical environment and the environed organism, between physiography and ontography (to coin a term), that constitutes the essential principles of geography today.

Man was first a hunter, and an artist: his early vestiges tell us that alone. But he must always have dreamed, and recognized and guessed and supposed, all the skills of the imagination. Language itself...

Geography is destiny.

[A]s Geography without History seemeth a carkasse without motion; so History without Geography, wandreth as a Vagrant without a certaine habitation.

I like geography best, he said, because your mountains & rivers know the secret. Pay no attention to boundaries.

If the Pentateuch is not inspired in its astronomy, geology, geography, history or philosophy, if it is not inspired concerning slavery, polygamy, war, law, religious or political liberty, or the rights of men, women and...

Bhutan does seem a bit unreal at times. Hardly anybody in the U.S. knows where it is. I have friends who still think the entire country is a figment of my imagination. When I was...

Since he had given up men he had taken up geography. He visited a new sight or a new neighborhood nearly every weekend.

Geography and mileage mean nothing. Separate is a single word that covers all distances that aren’t together.

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

(Media question to Beatles during first U.S. tour 1964)”How do you find America?””Turn left at Greenland.

Science rock: The pursuit of science, lead us to the beautiful places of the world.

Geography should be the ultimate deciding factor for every political dilemma for proximity to an ailing land is bound to result in one’s infection.

The topography of literature, the fact in fiction,is one of my pleasures — I mean, where the living road enters the pages of a book, and you are able to stroll along both the real...

Much of the geographical work of the past hundred years… has either explicitly or implicitly taken its inspiration from biology, and in particular Darwin. Many of the original Darwinians, such as Hooker, Wallace, Huxley, Bates,...

Do you understand the sadness of geography?

Based on data from the mid-quarter update, we don’t expect significant surprises in product or geography mix.

I like science – geography, meteorology, cosmology.

Periodista:-,Por qué vá a subir al Everest?Mallory:-Porque está ahí.

New York is an ugly city, a dirty city. Its climate is a scandal, its politics are used to frighten children, its traffic is madness, its competition is murderous. But there is one thing about...

I gradually became aware that my interiority was inseparable from my exteriority, that the geography of my city was the geography of my soul.

He who is ready to die for his country is a fool. For he didn’t choose where he was born; and where he was born didn’t choose him.

This happened back east of course. I’ve heard that term a lot since coming to this part of the country. But I never think of the term as a marker of geography. It’s a reference...

The truth is, until you know any different, the island is enough.Actually, I know different. And it’s still enough.

Com’è l’Africa? – gli chiedevano.- Stanca.

Education is political.

Teens’ use of social media is significantly shaped by race and class, geography and cultural background [boyd, danah , “An Old Fogey’s Analysis of a Teenager’s View on Social Media,” Medium, January 12, 2015].

. . . In that Empire, the Art of Cartography attained such Perfection that the map of a single Province occupied the entirety of a City, and the map of the Empire, the entirety of...

Geography is the key, the crucial accident of birth. A piece of protein could be a snail, a sea lion, or a systems analyst, but it had to start somewhere. This is not science; it...

I was not sorry for loving Charleston or for leaving it. Geography had made me who I was.