Quotes About Geography

The loneliest Chinese man I ever met lived halfway up the Three Gorges, in Sichuan Province.

Oh, I just tend to believe in things when I'm writing them. For instance, when I was writing 'Doctor Dee,' I believed in magic. And when I wrote 'Hawksmoor' I believed in psychic geography. But as soon as I type the last full stop, I'm back to being a complete blank again.

Boston had the first public library, Liverpool had the first lending library. Both cities have pioneered medical advancements during the decades and both have the largest economic powers in the world exactly 213 miles to the south by car.

Publishing had been successful where there had been natural geographic monopolies.

The promise of the Internet is around this transcendence of physical geography. To a large degree, the Internet has delivered on that promise, but when it comes to the movement of money and the ability to start and operate a business or needing to purchase from a business, it really hasn't.

I wasn't absolutely too sure where the Falklands was, and I didn't want to make a bloody fool of myself.

In France, we have a geographic situation that is very exceptional, and it creates produce that is completely exceptional.

England in a way is lucky. It's an island, so the frontiers are given by the sea.

Alcuni posti, dove è avvenuto qualcosa di significativo, diventano sacri. L'amore produce una geografia sacrale del mondo.

As with wine, geography affects the flavor. Oysters are usually named for a locale.

Here's the deal on Texas. It's big. So big, there's about five distinct and different places here, separated from one another geologically, topographically, botanically, ethnically, culturally, and climatically.

From a scientific point of view, it's hard for me to understand why someone in the Texas Panhandle should not have access to the same research funds that someone in the Oklahoma Panhandle can have.

Be careful about Burma. Most people cannot remember whether it was Siam and has become Thailand, or whether it is now part of Malaysia and should be called Sri Lanka.

Louisiana loses 30 miles a year off our coast. We lost 100 miles last year off our coast thanks to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. We have lost a size of land equivalent to the entire state of Rhode Island.

Athens and the Greek peninsula marked the western limit of the three great Hellenistic kingdoms

Eratosthenes was the first to use a scientific method to calculate the circumference of the earth

much of Bulgaria, Albania, the Republic of North Macedonia, and all the European part of Turkey.

At almost exactly the same moment, far to the south, the valley of the Nile is lit up.

From Thessaly, the only way for an army to enter southern Greece

These passes were used so frequently that it is incorrect to project the north-western mountains as barriers. They were corridors of communication.

Palestine is the region known as the Shephelah, a series of ridges and valleys connecting the Judaean

Chris Martin looks like a geography teacher.

I never thought that I would support myself with art - everyone in the Group of Seven had day jobs. I became a geography teacher so that I could get free field trips into the wilderness to paint.

In the U.K., we have the best geography teachers in the world!