116 Quotes About Geography

To lovers of adventure and novelty, Africa displays a most ample field.

And the geography of the thing--the geography of them--was completely and hopelessly wrong.

The truth is : We study everyday earth not through geography but through politics.

If one is seeking for Heaven on earth, has slept in geography class.

Maps lie.Or at least, they don’t always tell the truth.They’re like us humans that way.

Since he had given up men he had taken up geography. He visited a new sight or a new neighborhood nearly every weekend.

The ancient paused for a moment, as if his strength were failing. Yet I sensed that there was more to tell. Looking deep into my eyes, he whispered: 'The Gond kingdoms have fallen, their people live dispersed in poverty: the teak trees and the jungles have been cleared... but the importance of the Gonds must not be forgotten!

Eratosthenes, the mapmaker who was the first man to accurately measure the size of the Earth, was a librarian.

Geography is the key, the crucial accident of birth. A piece of protein could be a snail, a sea lion, or a systems analyst, but it had to start somewhere. This is not science; it is merely metaphor. And the landscape in which the protein "starts" shapes its end as surely as bowls shape water.