Quotes About Navigation

The Royal Sovereign carried straight on and just squeezed through, almost shaving the Santa Ana's stern

running his dividers across a map of the Atlantic and calculating how many leagues his ships could cover each day.

It didn't work like that at sea.

Nelson's fleet had been spotted off the Spanish coast, barring the way to the Atlantic.

he would have to go due south instead, around the outside of Majorca and Ibiza – pirate waters,

Caesar had had trouble with the currents off the English coast. Napoleon would too.

The bateaux canonniers were more seaworthy, but could not traverse their guns.

The whole boat had to be pointed towards the target.

The manoeuvre was difficult at the best of times. In the dark, it was almost impossible.

Instead of requiring us to puzzle out where we are in an area, a GPS device simply sets us at the center of the map and then makes the world circulate around us.

The automation of wayfinding serves to "inhibit the process of experiencing the physical world by navigation through it." 4 As

those with the helpful software were found "to aimlessly click around" as they tried to crack the puzzle.27

Maps codify the miracle of existence.

Much has been written on the excellence of bats' navigation equipment. It is all false. Tropical bats spend their entire time flying into obstacles with a horrible thudding noise. They specialize in slamming into walls and falling, fluttering onto your face. As my own 'piece of equipment essential for the field' I would strongly recommend a tennis racket; it is devastatingly effective in clearing a room of bats.

Time is the reef upon which all our mystic ships are wrecked.

In this way he used her as the North Star on a journey where you always want to go south. It was helpful, aligning himself in this way. It gave him something to tune to, like a violin to a piano.

I am like a leaf on a river, riding along the top of the water, not quite floating, not quite drowning. So I can't stop, and I can't control the direction I am going. I can feel the water, but I never know which way I am heading. But I might feel lucky this day and avoid the sticks and branches scratching and pulling at me.

I am like a leaf on a river, riding along the top of the water, not quite floating, not quite drowning. So I can't stop, and I can't control the direction I am going. I can feel the water, but I never know which way I am heading.

She passed through her childhood blindfolded, picking her way cautiously along, sensitive fingertips stretched out before her to avoid sharp corners and unyielding walls, clinging close to the protection of solitude and isolation.

A man never goes so far as when he does not know whither he is going.

A man never goes so far as when he does not know wither he is going.

To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it ? but we must sail and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.

The trick to going wherever you want unchallenged in a hospital is to walk briskly, nod to the people you know, and ignore the ones you don't. The nod reassures everyone that you are known, the brisk pace that you have a mission and don't want to talk.