Geography Quotes - Page 2

• Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it.

  Terry Pratchett

  Couple, Tree, Physics

  "Feet Of Clay". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1996.

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

  William Lyon Mackenzie

  Inspirational, Country, Too Much

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• Religion is a mere question of geography.

  Edward Gibbon

  Mere

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• I like geography. I like to know where places are.

  Tom Felton

  Knows

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  For whatever you're doing, for your creative juices, your geography's got a hell of a lot to do with it. You really have to be in a good place, and then you have to be either on your way there or on your way from there.

  Neil Young

  Creative Juices, Way, Hell

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Everywhere's been where it is ever since it was first put there. It's called geography.

  Terry Pratchett

  Firsts

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Wyrd Sisters: (Discworld Novel 6)”, p.134, Random House

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• If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Peace, War, Race

  Ludwig Von Mises (1985). “Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War”, Libertarian Press

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• 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.

  Annie Dillard

  Keys, Sea, Water

  Annie Dillard (2016). “Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters”, p.92, Canongate Books

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• If geography is prose, maps are iconography.

  Lennart Meri

  Iconography, Maps, Prose

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• In the teaching of geography and history a sympathetic understanding (should) be fostered for the characteristics of the different peoples of the world, especially for those who we are in the habit of describing as "primitive.

  Albert Einstein

  Teaching, Geography And History, Understanding

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.103, Princeton University Press

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• Just as none of us is outside or beyond geography, none of us is completely free from the struggle over geography. That struggle is complex and interesting because it is not only about soldiers and cannons but also about ideas, about forms, about images and imaginings.

  Edward Said

  Struggle, Ideas, Interesting

  Silvia Nagy, Edward W. Said (2006). “Paradoxical Citizenship: Edward Said”, p.90, Lexington Books

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• With the revolution in information technology, with the revolution in transport technologies, I think just geography has lost its all significance.

  Manmohan Singh

  Technology, Thinking, Information

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• I have a neighbor who knows 200 types of wine. ... I only know two types of wine - red and white. But my neighbor only knows two types of countries - industrialized and developing. And I know 200.

  Hans Rosling

  Country, Travel, Motivation

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• Geography is destiny.

  Abraham Verghese

  Destiny

  Abraham Verghese (2016). “My Own Country: A Doctor's Story of a Town and its People in the Age of AIDS”, p.268, Simon and Schuster

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• All I ever wanted was a world without maps.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Life, World, Maps

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• To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.

  George Santayana

  Patriotic, Soul, Patriotism

  George Santayana, William G. Holzberger (2002). “The Letters of George Santayana”, p.192, MIT Press

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• History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day. It is a compass they use to find themselves on the map of human geography. It tells them where they are but, more importantly, what they must be.

  John Henrik Clarke

  People, History, Political

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I get to go to overseas places, like Canada.

  Britney Spears

  Dumb, Canada

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• Place is security, space is freedom.

  Yi-Fu Tuan

  Freedom, Space, Geographers

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• What a lost person needs is a map of the territory, with his own position marked on it so he can see where he is in relation to everything else. Literature is not only a mirror; it is also a map, a geography of the mind. Our literature is one such map, if we can learn to read it as our literature, as the product of who and where we have been. We need such a map desperately, we need to know about here, because here is where we live. For the members of a country or a culture, shared knowledge of their place, their here, is not a luxury but a necessity. Without that knowledge we will not survive.

  Margaret Atwood

  Country, Mirrors, Luxury

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• Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.

  Eric Bentley

  Maps, Biographies, Chaps

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

  Ambrose Bierce

  Rights, Two Nations, History

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.28, University of Georgia Press

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• As Geography without History seemeth a carkasse without motion; so History without Geography wandreth as a Vagrant without a certaine habitation.

  John Smith

  Geography And History, History, Vagrants

  John Smith (2006). “Generall Historie of Virginia Vol 1: New England & the Summer Isles”, p.331, Applewood Books

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• War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Funny, Peace, Military

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• I like geography. I could tell you the capital of any country you want.

  Bam Margera

  Country, Want

  "The Stars of Jackass 3D On God, Cancer, and Homosexuality". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.vanityfair.com. October 14, 2010.

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