Quotes About Geography

Your longevity and health are more determined by your ZIP code than they are by your genetic code.

Italy is only a geographical expression.

To build a theory of international relations on accidents of geography and history is dangerous.

Anatomy is to physiology as geography is to history; it describes the theatre of events.

History is all explained by geography.

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.

Boundary, n. In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of another.

Anger does not make history. Power does. And power may be supplemented by anger, but it derives from more fundamental realities; geography, demographics, technology, and culture.

Give children beauty, not the record of bloody slaughters and barbarous brawls, as they call history, or of the latitude and longitude of places nobody cares to visit, as they call geography.

Look at a globe and what you are seeing really is a snapshot of the continents as they have been for just one-tenth of 1 per cent of the earths history.

Without history we are the prisoners of the accident of where and when we were born.

The biggest difference between England and America is that England has history, while America has geography.

The history of almost every civilization furnishes examples of geographical expansion coinciding with deterioration in quality.

'Air' is what the world looks like: An inconvenient mashup of human politics and divine geography. We leave bits and pieces of ourselves and our history in every place we encounter.

Geography is the study of earth as the home of people

I gradually became aware that my interiority was inseparable from my exteriority, that the geography of my city was the geography of my soul.

If people from Poland are called Poles, why aren't people from Holland called Holes?

The application of GIS is limited only by the imagination of those who use it

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

The peculiar value of geography lies in its fitness to nourish the mind with ideas and furnish the imagination with pictures.

A place is a story, and stories are geography, and empathy is first of all an act of imagination, a storyteller's art, and then a way of traveling from here to there.

Without geography you're nowhere.

If some countries have too much history, we have too much geography.

And with alphabetical irony Nigeria follows New Zealand