Quotes About Terrain

trying to see some difference in terrain or foliage which might distinguish Arendia from Tolnedra, but there seemed to be none. The land, indifferent to human boundaries, flowed on unchanged.

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Everything here is too far to walk - or too muddy; for the dirt in Paris is beyond all description.

Kugelmass, unaware of this catastrophe, had his own problems. He had not been thrust into Portnoy's Complaint , or into any other novel, for that matter. He had been projected into an old textbook, Remedial Spanish , and was running for his life over a barren, rocky terrain as the word tener (to have) - a large and hairy irregular verb - raced after him on its spindly legs.

Caesar set his legion's All Day speed at exactly "twenty Roman miles in five summer hours," or 15:00 minutes a mile. The next faster gear was double-time, a 13:30 clip that covered twenty-two Roman miles in five hours. When you factor in the gnarly terrain and 45-pound packs on their backs, that's a churn rate any ultrarunner would envy.

de la misma forma que alzamos los brazos automáticamente cuando resbalamos sobre hielo, las piernas y pies instintivamente caen con más fuerza cuando perciben una superficie blanda. Cuando corremos con zapatillas con protección, los pies van a través de las suelas en busca de una superficie dura, estable. «Llegamos

She was supposed to be writing an essay on how geography had shaped the great battles of the past, but she was having trouble concentrating. In fact, all she'd managed so far was a title. "How Geography Has Shaped the Great Battles of the Past.

Once a Ranger, always a Ranger, he thought in disgust. Life's basics were pretty much centered around war, beer, and sex—the order subject to change with the terrain. The terrain standing in front of him in nothing but thin silk and telling eyes shuffled sex to the top of the list. Which proved another Ranger axiom: The little head did most of the thinking.

You didn't have to travel very far out of Vientiane before the road turned to pebbles and potholes. Traveling in a truck was like falling down an endless flight of uneven steps in a coffin.

Unlike running on a road or concrete, natural surfaces are more forgiving and offer a more varied terrain, ultimately resulting in less repetitive micro-trauma to bones and joints than running on hard pavement does.

When we step into a new terrain, we experience vast uncertainty. Uncertainty is just a situation that you do not know how to handle.

I literally shaped a lot of the land in Vermont in different ways.

It is hard to imagine Andre Le Notre laying out the exquisite landscape designs for Vaux-le-Vicomte, and later the magnificent Chateau de Versailles, with no high hill to stand on, no helicopter to fly in, and no drone to show him the complexities of the terrain. Yet he did, and with extreme precision, accuracy, and high style.

Her gloom and loneliness forgotten as she found peace in the strength and stillness of her movement up the mixed terrain of the North Face.

Land really is the best art.

From Kathmandu there is a road through Gorkha Country to Pokhara, in the central foothills; farther west, no roads exist at all. The road winds through steep gorges of the Trisuli River, now in torrent; dirty whitecaps filled the rapids, and the brown flood was thickened every now and again by thunderous rockslides down the walls of the ravine.

Afghanistan is a land-locked country.

A butte is taller than it is wide, whereas a mesa, like this one, is wider than it is tall.

Perhaps the story of the human race is best understood as a journey through particularly hazardous terrain, in the dark, in a not very well-serviced vehicle, with a succession of drivers of varying competence, in assorted states of inebreiation

Without geography you're nowhere.

I'm accustomed to thinking of literature as a search for knowledge; in order to move onto existential terrain I need to consider it in relation to anthropology, ethnology, and mythology.

The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain.

On the whole, GPS is fine but you still need maps because the information available can be different to what's on the ground. You need to be vigilant for obstacles.

I'm a great believer in geography being destiny.