Quotes About Geography

A family's desire to be able to keep its health insurance when changing jobs or geography (a problem that Obamacare doesn't make any better, by the way) is perfectly reasonable.

When you connect as many memories to your geography as I have, and then you see that geography change around you, you're forced to reckon with the passage of time.

Europe is a much more complex historical, cultural, and geographical concept than is envisaged in the reduced approach by the European Union.

The biggest difference from Hawaii and Alabama would probably be there's no beaches. But other than that, the people are very nice.

D]iplomats and military men considered Italy nothing more than a geographical name.

Ne bi imalo nikakvog smisla da je druga?ije. Sve su prou?ili, sve izra?unali, ne dolazi u obzir da se prevare, nitko nikada nije uo?io ni jednu pogrešku, makar samo za nekoliko centimetara ili milimetara. Svejedno uvijek osje?am nešto poput ushi?enja kad pomislim da su se u sredini tunela kroz planinu Cenis susreli francuski i talijanski kopa?i.

With our educated workforce, our language as the international language of commerce, we are ideally geographically located to prepare for success. Following Brexit, we will have the tools at our disposal to take advantage of these attributes, and to benefit from the new opportunities that are emerging around the world.

Art is transformative. It's not 2+2=4. It works like the sea. It changes geography through its constant and relentless movement, just the way plants and water shape the world.

Our world is evolving without consideration, and the result is a loss of biodiversity, energy issues, congestion in cities. But geography, if used correctly, can be used to redesign sustainable and more livable cities.

Americans don't learn about the world; they don't study world history, other than American history in a very one-sided fashion, and they don't study geography.

If you look at the map, there's Thrace, Greece, Bulgaria, and there's tiny Gallipoli. It is such a small part of the whole peninsula, and yet you only hear about this little tiny bit.

If humans evolved in a tiny area of Africa, they only saw plants and animals within a 100-kilometre radius for a million years. When they began to migrate, there would have been different animals and plants - and potentially a lot of allergy issues.

They're our next-door neighbors, and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska.

People in north Michigan are not different at all from people in southern Alabama. Trust me, someone who's spent a lot of time in both places. They're all hardworking, simple people.

Even as regards Earth we are more committed to history than to geography, more committed to time than to space. History is endless. Place is limited.

I think the idea of migration through time is very important because every human being does that and it unites us with people who migrate through geography.

Switzerland would me a mighty big place if it were ironed flat.

There isn't a parallel of latitude but thinks it would have been the equator if it had had its rights.

The ancients considered the Pillars of Hercules the head of navigation and the end of the world. The information the ancients didn't have was very voluminous.

Naturally the question suggests itself, Why did these people want the river now when nobody had wanted it in the five preceding generations? Apparently it was because at this late day they thought they had discovered a way to make it useful; for it had come to be believed that the Mississippi emptied into the Gulf of California, and therefore afforded a short cut from Canada to China. Previously the supposition had been that it emptied into the Atlantic, or Sea of Virginia.

But the Moon has its own intrinsic geography.

the reality of geography could not be wished away.

If only at school, geography teachers, surely the most scoffed and pilloried class of pedagogue there is, if only they had concentrated less on rift valleys, trig points and the major exports of Indonesia and more on the fact that geography could promise a classy royal society with the sexiest lecture theatre in the land.

Geographical context is often thought about in terms of national or political territories, physical landscapes, or exotic places.