Geography Quotes

“All theology is rooted in geography.”

— Eugene H. Peterson

Why are old maps always burnt?

— Chelsea Peretti

Without geography you're nowhere.

— Jimmy Buffett

Maps are a way of organizing wonder.

— Peter Steinhart

“geography bends to the dictate of will.”

— Michelle Sagara

We were just looking at maps...

— Rick Riordan

Geography is the art of the mappable.

— Peter Haggett

Everything has to do with geography.

— Judy Martz

You can't use an old map to explore a new world.

— Albert Einstein

We have 45,000 square miles of geography in Ohio.

— Anonymous

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

— Tom Felton

There’s just something hypnotic about maps.

— Ken Jennings

“Geography was fungible, fluid, unreliable.”

— Catherynne M. Valente

All I ever wanted was a world without maps.

— Michael Ondaatje

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

— Anonymous

“Bribe cartographers to remove us from the atlas.”

— Melancton Hawks

I feel like there is an emphasis against teaching geography in American schools. Americans don't say, "I'm going to Germany." They say,…

— Ayshay

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

— Aleksandar Hemon

Geography has no bearing on it, nor have the interests of the community in which I work.

— Yves Tanguy

Besides P.E., geography was my best class in high school. I was in this gifted class when I was younger, and it…

— Steve Nash

Maps encourage boldness. They're like cryptic love letters. They make anything seem possible.

— Mark Jenkins

“I usually say mapmaker, and let the smarty pants say ‘cartographer’ because they’ve watched Jeopardy . ”

— Michael Siegel

“He who is ready to die for his country is a fool. For he didn’t choose where he was born; and where…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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…

— Peter Greenaway

We are shaped not only by our current geography but by our ancestral one as well. Americans, for instance, retain a frontier…

— Eric Weiner

You know, Mouse," Tabby said, "a brilliant cat like me should have smart friends; people who can count to more than four."…

— Ruth Park

Your soul knows the geography of your destiny. Your soul alone has the map of your future, therefore you can trust this…

— John O'Donohue

“Folk like to pretend they know everything about the world. Rich folk especially. Maps are great for that. [...] You don't have…

— Patrick Rothfuss

Nature, I have constantly argued in my work, is the real superpower of this godless universe. It is the ultimate disposer of…

— Camille Paglia

Because everybody is so ADD and everybody is trying to move the plot so fast, there's very little sense of geography in…

— Ti West

Children can take lessons in that school via the Internet and can score extra points like e.g. in Geography or History. That…

— Anatoly Karpov

Here's the truth you have to wrestle with: the reason that art (writing, engaging, leading, all of it) is valuable is precisely…

— Seth Godin

What are your choices? Whom are your choices for? Not just for yourself. Chose now whom you will serve, and that choice…

— Edith Schaeffer

What is it about maps and globes that seems to require our undivided attention? I've spent hours looking at maps of places…

— Dan Kieran

Michael [Jackson] reconstructed his face and deconstructed the African features into a spooky European geography of fleshly possibilities, and yet what we…

— Michael Eric Dyson

There are stories, like maps that agree... too consistent among too many languages and histories to be only wishful thinking… It is…

— Thomas Pynchon

A lot of the reason I left New York, in addition to being so broke, was that I just felt I was…

— Meghan Daum

Charleston has a landscape that encourages intimacy and partisanship. I have heard it said that an inoculation to the sights and smells…

— Pat Conroy

Yes, gentlemen, give me the map of any country, its configuration, its climate, its waters, its winds, and the whole of its…

— Victor Cousin

The great affair, the love affair with life, is to live as variously as possible, to groom one's curiosity like a high-spirited…

— Diane Ackerman