Quotes About Terrain

In the challenging desert terrain, internees raised livestock and produced enough vegetables to feed the entire camp. On-site

Geography is an earthly subject, but a heavenly science.

The plateau of Mexico is 8,000 feet high, and that of Puebla 9,000 feet.

I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.

farms on the lower slopes of the mountain. As the eye moved from

The sketches were uncanny, almost photographic in quality. Reference points were given; the viewers described the surrounding terrain and landmarks. There were even sketches showing the aircraft's location in relation to the Ecuadorean search teams. In every sketch there was a phantom, a transparent body: sort of a self portrait of the viewer in the target area.

Children are uncivilized, so have a staggering power to harm, especially those people whose hearts need mending. In that house an unhappy child was too much rain on a high water table. I poured it on and the terrain liquefied.

By land it was a scant 29 miles in a straight line.

If I do a circuit, then after three laps I could tell you where all the potholes were.

it was the power of the military, and in particular that of the Air Force, which was the hidden hand that allowed universalist ideas to matter so much more than terrain and the historical experience of people living on it.

Geography, from a Greek word that means essentially a description of the earth

Politicizing Islam means seeing it not as a collection of clearly definable values or "customs," but rather a contested terrain of lived practices and contingent interpretations. Making place for the secular, in particular, remains a significant challenge, especially given that much of the "Muslim world" is secular, albeit increasingly stifled by the Islamic revival.

Sheep are always looking for a new shepherd when the terrain gets rocky.

Not enough has been written about the treachery of middle life," the old man mused, his voice carrying over the wind. "Dante went to hell to escape it, and I've seen plenty of other men do the same, metaphorically speaking. Be patient, Dexter. Wars have a way of shifting the terrain into configurations we can't foresee, hard as we might try. This is no time for bold moves.

In battle, topography is fate.

It occurred to Bo that Texas songs were always about the sky because there simply wasn't anything else. No hill, no mound, not even a ripple of earth to break the dizzying sweep of the eye toward infinity. "Flat," she decided, was a term insufficient to the terrain. It was more than that. It was actually a negative pull, an inverted gasp of ground beneath a firmament so boundless it might threaten the sanity of even those who weren't already pushing the edge.

At night thunderstorms arose often, shedding lightning that gave the terrain the pallor of a corpse. Fog would settle in for days, causing the edge of the cliff to look like the edge of the material world. At regular intervals the men heard the lost-calf moan of foghorns as steamships waited offshore for clarity.

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

Even by the diverse standards of Saturn's satellites, Enceladus was an outlier. Its icy surface was as white and bright as fresh snow, and whereas the other airless moons were heavily pocked with craters, Enceladus was mantled in places with extensive plains of smooth, uncratered terrain, a clear sign of past internally driven geologic activity.

But I love bowling in India, the grounds are quite flat whereas in South Africa you feel you are running uphill.

If you smash a city when you're trying to capture it, you actually end up providing the perfect terrain for the defenders while blocking the access for your own armoured vehicles.

Places are extremely important when writing a long story because place shapes a character.

The battle at Verdun can best be imagined as some monstrous ball game, in which two teams of giants push a boulder to and fro across impossible terrain. For months the Germans had pushed the French south, towards Verdun; now the French were pushing the Germans back to the north, towards their start-line positions of 21 February. The entry fee in this contest for a worthless piece of terrain was a great number of lives.

The picturesque is found any time the ground is uneven.