Quotes About Geography

Canada's climate is nine months winter and three months late in the fall.

The Ottawa river flows out of Protestant Ontario into Catholic Quebec.

Turkey is a European country, an Asian country, a Middle Eastern country, Balkan country, Caucasian country, neighbor to Africa, Black Sea country, Caspian Sea, all these.

A journey of four hundred and thirty miles can be made in any part of the United States, but in Turkey it takes as many days.

Turkey and Brazil, though half a world apart geographically, have much in common. Both are large countries that spent long years under military dominance, but have broken with that history and made decisive steps towards full democracy.

I was stationed in Turkey, Mexico City, South America, Texas, Arizona, so I do know where the Mexican-U.S. border is.

Latin American Art is an operational term used to describe art actually made in the more than twenty countries that make up Latin America and that encompass Mexico, Central and South America, and the Caribbean.

God created war so that Americans would learn geography.

We must kill them in war, just because they live beyond the river. If they lived on this side, we would be called murderers.

What was it he sensed beneath the charm of Adelaide's wide ordered streets, grand Georgian and Victorian buildings and symmetrical leafy green squares? It is variously known as the Garden City, the City of Churches, the Athens of the South, the jewel in the national crown of arts and sciences. A city, above all, cultured and civilised. But when Salman Rushdie watched night fall in Adelaide, it was not a soft velvet cloak of harmony that he saw descend on this city.

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

I was born just barely south of the Mason Dixon line.

Why can I write 'South' with some assurance that you'll know I mean Richmond and don't mean Phoenix? What is it that the South's boundaries enclose?

Atlanta is not the South.

The southward advance of native African farmers with Central African crops halted in Natal, beyond which Central African crops couldn't grow - with enormous consequences for the recent history of South Africa.

A 'township' in the U.S. is a small area. In South Africa it's a place designated for non-white people during the apartheid.

I concentrate on the southern African subcontinent.

When you're on one of the Caribbean islands, sometimes it's hard to picture how they fit in with the rest, but when you see them all joined together like a necklace from space, you see the natural geographic connectedness of them all.

The Discovery of France

he argued, was not perfectly round but "in the shape of a pear

Taken together, the cordilleras and the altiplano make up the Andes, the second-biggest chain of mountains in the world.

Even with animals, though, the Olmec would not have had much use for wheeled vehicles. Their country is so wet and boggy that Stirling's horses sank to their chests in mud; boats were a primary means of transportation until recently. In addition one might note that Mesoamerican societies were not alone in their wheel-blindness. Although Mesopotamia had the wheel in about 4000 B.C., nearby Egypt did not use the wheel until two thousand years later, despite being in close contact

When on board H.M.S. 'Beagle,' as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the inhabitants of South America

for a schoolroom without a physical atlas is like a needle without an eye)