Quotes About Geography

roughly identical with modern Iraq from north of Baghdad to the Persian Gulf. It has an area of approximately 10,000 square miles, somewhat larger than the state of Massachusetts. Its climate is extremely hot and dry, and

identical with modern Iraq from north of Baghdad to the Persian Gulf. It has an area of approximately 10,000 square miles, somewhat larger than the state of Massachusetts.

Do you think a city can control the way the people live inside it? I mean, just the geography, the way the streets are laid out, the way the buildings are placed?

By the time I was in sixth grade I could bound every country in the world from memory.

Landlocked Switzerland: They're Nice and Neutral Only Because They're Tiny

But is it her fault that she was born where she was born???

Nairobi means 'cool water' in Maasai.

And just as Columbus's discoveries fixed the geography of Earth forever in human minds, so we learned the geography of the universe

The big blank spaces in the map are all being filled in, and there's no room for romance anywhere.

Twenty-five percent of the Netherlands is reclaimed land. The whole country is sixteen feet below sea level.

Montana named Triple Divide Peak.

No mountain is of any appreciable height to break the curve of the sphere.

Your soul knows the geography of your destiny. Your soul alone has the map of your future, therefore you can trust this indirect, oblique side of yourself. If you do, it will take you where you need to go, but more important it will teach you a kindness of rhythm in your journey.

In truth, the Valley of Mexico is not a valley at all but a self-contained basin hemmed in by 8,000-foot peaks with no natural drainage.

As Geography without History seemeth a carkasse without motion; so History without Geography wandreth as a Vagrant without a certaine habitation.

As for the Homeland, it had another meaning which had nothing to do with geographical place. It concerned not where you lived but how you lived, for, in effect, it defined a way of thinking, of looking at things.

Of all the things I wondered about on this land, I wondered the hardest about the seduction of certain geographies that feel like home — not by story or blood but merely by their forms and colors. How our perceptions are our only internal map of the world, how there are places that claim you and places that warn you away. How you can fall in love with the light.

My geography savors a delicious paradox: Home - a grounding - found in unearthly beauty. The predominant colors are blue, emerald, and terra-cotta. Every day, every season, I taste these colors and the intricate flavors of their unaccountable tones and hues. I have yet to earn this land. Perhaps I never will. Home is a religion. Sensibly you understand the need for it, yet not even sensible people can explain it. - from the Chapter "Finding Home

La geografia dell'aridità è un prisma da cui emergono i più insoliti e complessi accostamenti di colore. I sederti hanno questo in comune, i colori. E sono loro a farci sentire a casa in luoghi simili, a darci l'impressione che il mondo non sia poi così grande.

No part of the world can be truly understood without a knowledge of its garment of vegetation, for this determines not only the nature of the animal inhabitants but also the occupations of the majority of human beings.

In Europe, happiness stops at Vienna. Beyond, misery upon misery, since the beginning.

România e geografie, nu e istorie. ÎnÈ›elege cineva acest tragic?

Geography is best learned along with history; for if the first explains history, the latter gives interest to geography, which without it is but a dry list of names.

As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world - most of its food, productive machines, doctors, engineers and teachers. A view from the opposite pole would encompass most of the world's poor.