Cartography Quotes

• I've always been fascinated by maps and cartography. A map tells you where you've been, where you are, and where you're going -- in a sense it's three tenses in one.

  Peter Greenaway

  Three, Maps, Where You Are

  Peter Greenaway, Vernon W. Gras (2000). “Peter Greenaway: Interviews”, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come.

  Gilles Deleuze

  Country, Writing, Mapping

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• We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of wisdom, characters we have climbed into as if trees, fears we have hidden in as if caves. I wish for all this to be marked on by body when I am dead. I believe in such cartography - to be marked by nature, not just to label ourselves on a map like the names of rich men and women on buildings. We are communal histories, communal books. We are not owned or monogamous in our taste or experience.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Relationship, Believe, Book

  FaceBook post by Michael Ondaatje from Nov 01, 2015

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• All I desired was to walk upon such an earth that had no maps.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Maps, Earth, Walks

  Michael Ondaatje (2011). “The English Patient”, p.261, Vintage

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• I believe in such cartography – to be marked by nature, not just label ourselves on a map like the names of rich men and women on buildings. We are communal histories, communal books. ... All I desired was to walk upon such an earth that had no maps.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Believe, Book, Men

  Michael Ondaatje (1996). “The English Patient: A Novel”, Random House Inglaterra

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• Childhood is a branch of cartography.

  Michael Chabon

  Childhood, Branches

  "Manhood for Amateurs: The Wilderness of Childhood". www.nybooks.com. July 16, 2009.

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• Like many of the people quoted on this dust-cover, I have not read Carl King's book. I am confident, however, that my review still applies: So, You're a Creative Genius is the best book available on modern cartography.

  Heather Anne Campbell

  Kings, Book, Dust

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• I think of spirit as that which evokes us - the lure of becoming that keeps calling. And I think of soul as that which gets us through the cartography of everyday life.

  Jean Houston

  Thinking, Soul, Everyday

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• Angela Davis offers a cartography of engagement in oppositional social movements and unwavering commitment to justice.

  Chandra Talpade Mohanty

  Commitment, Justice, Engagement

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• The continuous networks of neural circuitry accomplish their functions using multiple, independently discovered strategies. The brain lends itself well to the complexity of the world, but poorly to clear-cut cartography.

  David Eagleman

  Cutting, Brain, World

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