Quotes About Geography

There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives.

An art that heals and protects its subject is a geography of scars.

The modern airplane creates a new geographical dimension. A navigable ocean of air blankets the whole surface of the globe. There are no distant places any longer: the world is small and the world is one.

One degree of longitude equals four minutes of time the world over, but in terms of distance, one degree shrinks from sixty-eight miles at the Equator to virtually nothing at the poles.

To learn one's longitude at sea, one needs to know what time it is aboard ship and also the time at the home port or another place of known longitude—at that very same moment. The two clock times enable the navigator to convert the hour difference into a geographical separation. Since the Earth takes twenty-four hours to complete one full revolution of three hundred sixty degrees, one hour marks one twenty-fourth of a spin, or fifteen degrees.

Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep.

The term "Kansas-Nebraska Territory" does not describe the area of Kansas and Nebraska as they are known today. In 1854, the Kansas-Nebraska territory included not only Kansas and Nebraska but also what is now part of Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, North Dakota and South Dakota. 48 Therefore, by extending slavery into parts of the Kansas-Nebraska territory, Democrats were pushing slavery westward across the nation, essentially from coast to coast.)

He's not so bad-looking," I said, and it was true: the conductor was tall and well made, with a strong jawline and heavy, masculine features. "Non, not so bad," said Bertrand, "but he is cruel. He call me names, he call my mother names, he insult my country—not even my country, but France, even though I try to explain—" "There's no point in trying to explain geography to that type.

You do know that the West Bank means the West Bank of the Jordan River, don't you?

Dit is Pangaea. - Jake

Right and wrong isn't a matter of ethics, rather it's the geography in which you reside and whose control you're under. Tallinn Manual 2.0 is based largely on western international humanitarian law.

On Earth it is never possible to be farther than sixteen thousand miles from your birthplace

Do you know this part of the world well?

The geography of my heart has hills of desire and valleys and meadows of love — for both men and women — a single day's trek passes through it all.

A study of a cohort of 4,800 African Americans born between 1952 and 1982 shows that, as they grew into adults, 69 percent of the cohort remain in the same county, 82 percent remain in the same state, and 90 percent remain in the same region. The figures for the previous generation were 50 percent, 65 percent, and 74 percent.

The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain.

Cyprus floats

Far from dotting the globe with fabulous islands, the naval powers of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries remorselessly tracked down any and all such rumors and either confirmed or disproved them. As a result, the 1875 revised Admiralty Pacific chart discarded 123 unreal islands.

How many people are moving up toward the Antarctica, or the Arctic? Most people move down to Texas and Florida, where it's a little bit warmer.

stooges of the Raj, this well-entrenched, Raj-preferred party of landlords and landowners—Muslims in the province's west, Sikhs in the centre, and Hindu Jats in the east

Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

perhaps the most motley assemblage in any quarter of this orb'; to quote another, it was 'a true centre of the diverse varieties and types of mankind, far surpassing the mixed nationalities of Cairo and Constantinople'. The fifth chapter was geographical, an argument for Bombay's physical isolation, with the sea and the mountains separating it from the Marathi-speaking heartland.

The drinking continued, Chickasaw warriors failed to rally to the king's cause, and men who might have been killed in battle died by the bottle instead. On a different level, the failure of Chickasaws to come through for the British can be explained by simple geography: they were not in the direct line of fire.

Scotland is the Canada of England!