Quotes About Geography

Manhattan had the same population density as Greenland, its population would be two.

Greenland's coast is more than twenty-seven thousand miles long, a distance greater than the circumference of the earth at the equator.

North-south streets are called "avenues" with the location tag at the end; for instance, 24th Avenue NW or 32nd Avenue South. Roads that run east-west are "streets" with the location tag at the beginning; for instance, NE 49th Street or SW Spokane Street.

Kader arad??? ki?iyi insan?n kar??s?na her seferinde kap? kom?usu olarak ç?karmaz. Uzaklar? yak?n etmek dü?er size. Haritalar? seviniz.

The basic geography of an organism is entirely based on the life experience of evolution. Constantly corrected by selfishness that will disrupt the basic ecosystem of thinking and human health.

Geography is fate.

It's as if what was to come was already laid out before us, that our fate lay in the geography toward which we were blithely driving.

is measured; thus, the departure between the meridians of T and T' is the number of miles corresponding to the distance Tn in

When Tony Benn became a minister in the 1960s -- and I think this must be apocryphal -- he had a huge map of Britain hung upside down in his office, so the channel was at the top and Scotland was at the bottom and, apparently, he said, "This is how we need to look at this country, with the money and the power draining by force of gravity out of the south east." That was a great idea. I rather liked him for that. I don't know if it's actually true or not.

Following the precedent set by the Europeans, who referred to the coastal regions of Africa by their exports—the Ivory Coast, the Gold Coast, the Slave Coast—some writers have referred to the Chesapeake region as the Tobacco Coast. But it would also be appropriate to call it the American Slave Coast.

Ancient Greeks did not think in terms of race (later translators would put that word in their mouths); instead, Greeks thought of place.

That's the thing about boys. Maybe just Irish boys. Boys have No Go Areas, they have an entire geography of places you can't go because if you do they'll crack open, they'll fall apart and you won't be able to put them back together, not ever. Girls know this. We know. Even love can't reach some places.

all the way down to Corunna, and from Cadiz to the Italian border.

They were aiming for the Straits of Gibraltar. It was the obvious place to intercept the French

The UK is not going to leave the European Union. Of course not. We are inextricably wound up with Europe. In terms of culture, history and geography, we are a European nation.

Everybody has a notion of what a desert should look like. Effective definitions of deserts vary according to the background of those doing the defining and the purpose of their enquiry. An artist's approach to deserts may be different from the stance taken by a scientist although, broadly, the two usually overlap geographically. It may, or may not, be surprising to learn that no universally accepted definition of the term 'desert' exists.

all adventures involving knowledge and imagination. When Marielle drives crosstown from east to west along Sherbrooke Street in her old Plymouth, aka 'Violet,' it is 'a carousel of history and geography,' it is about straddling grammar and going off to explore the inner recesses of the images and life irrigating the brain.

Was ich den Pyrenäen am meisten vorwerfe, ist, dass sie ein Gebirge sind ...

I repeat the names of the cardinal points in Russian: sever, north, desolate asperity of the Gulag; yug, south, a funnel that sucks you down toward the bottom; vostok, east, like the launch of a catapult; and zapad, west, the sound of falling head over heels.

Noi siamo sul bordo sud del Mare del Nord, tu sul bordo nord del Mare del Sud

My wound is geography. It is also my anchorage, my port of call.

Nh?ng ??a tr? m? côi h? có chung m?t ?i?u này, cô ??n, ra ?i, ?i ??u ?? khai ???ng cho c? nhóm, làm t?t h?n nh?ng ng??i cha v?ng m?t. ?i xa h?n trong khoa h?c và ??a lý só v?i nh?ng ng??i cha không bi?t m?t.

Nanyang County in southern Henan Province

Matamoros, Mexico? Tegucigalpa, Honduras?