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Quotes About Mapping

In all, Whipple would meet five leaders. On his last day in the valley, they came together to inform him they had not only held a national council and approved mapping a road through their country but had also chosen a guide to show his men the best route to the Pacific.
~ Margot Mifflin
Geography is the subject which holds the key to our future
~ Michael Palin
You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.
~ Mary Schmich
As a species, we love to divide things up. We draw a straight line in a map between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans while the water remains oblivious.
~ Matt Haig
The tour of the amusement park–like campus included a chat with Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt. I shared with him Israel's concerns about Google Earth, the global mapping program, which terrorists had used as a targeting device. Google Earth, Schmidt explained, was designed to bring people closer together. "Yes," I acknowledged, "but does it have to bring Hezbollah closer to my children?
~ Michael B. Oren
The first diagram that you need on any project is a context diagram.
~ Unknown
De stad heeft zo'n 2100 kilometer riool... Ongeveer 1300 mijl. Maar maak je geen zorgen. Verdwalen zullen we niet. De meeste hebben hun eigen straatnaambord. - Machiavelli, over Parijs
~ Michael Scott
longitude 65 degrees, 15 minutes north, and latitude 41 degrees, 18 minutes west.
~ Mitchell Zuckoff
Connecting the dots of Paul's journeys, actual and planned, is like mapping a royal procession through Caesar's heartlands.
~ Unknown
Our intellectual maturation as individuals can be traced through the way we draw pictures, or maps, of our surroundings. We begin with primitive, literal renderings of the features of the land we see around us, and we advance to ever more accurate, and more abstract, representations of geographic and topographic space. We progress, in other words, from drawing what we see to drawing what we know.
~ Unknown
Maps codify the miracle of existence.
~ Unknown
He also discovered that when he touched certain parts of the brain, he triggered long-lost childhood memories or dreamlike scenes—which implied that higher mental activities were also mapped in the brain.
~ Norman Doidge
Merzenich mapped a monkey's entire hand map. He began by touching the monkey's first finger and seeing which brain area started to fire. Once he found its brain map and defined its borders, he went on to the next finger. He found five finger areas, side by side for each of the five digits. Then
~ Norman Doidge
Dans cette vie qui vous apparaît quelquefois comme un grand terrain vague sans poteau indicateur, au milieu de toutes les lignes de fuite et les horizons perdus, on aimerait trouver des points de repère, dresser une sorte de cadastre pour n'avoir plus l'impression de naviguer au hasard. Alors, on tisse des liens, on essaye de rendre plus stables des rencontres hasardeuses.
~ Patrick Modiano
The highly regarded neurologist Antonio Damasio, author of Descartes' Error and The Feeling of What Happens, discovered that emotions literally have an anatomical mapping in the brain necessary for survival.4 That is to say the emotion of fear has a very specific neural circuitry etched in the brain corresponding to specific physical sensations from various parts of the body.
~ Peter A. Levine
Three dot, a trinity, a way to map the universe, three dot.
~ Peter Gabriel
and from Mount Hor to Lebo-hamath, then extend to Zedad,
~ Numbers 34:8
And your eastern border will run straight from Hazar-enan to Shepham,
~ Numbers 34:10
The eastern border was the Salt Sea as far as the mouth of the Jordan. The northern border started from the bay of the sea at the mouth of the Jordan,
~ Joshua 15:5
Then it went out to the northern slope of Ekron, curved toward Shikkeron, proceeded to Mount Baalah, went on to Jabneel, and ended at the Sea.
~ Joshua 15:11
Then it descended westward to the border of the Japhletites as far as the border of Lower Beth-horon and on to Gezer, and it ended at the Sea.
~ Joshua 16:3
Appoint three men from each tribe, and I will send them out to survey the land and map it out, according to the inheritance of each. Then they will return to me
~ Joshua 18:4
So the men departed and went throughout the land, mapping it city by city into seven portions. Then they returned with the document to Joshua at the camp in Shiloh.
~ Joshua 18:9
From there it curved northward and proceeded to En-shemesh and on to Geliloth facing the Ascent of Adummim, and continued down to the Stone of Bohan son of Reuben.
~ Joshua 18:17