The topography of L.A. is fascinating.

Whatever strengthens our local attachments is favorable both to individual and national character, our home, our birthplace, our native land. Think for a while…

— Robert Southey

Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations; it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness.

— Jerry Saltz

But even physics cannot be defined from an atomic topography.

— Michael Polanyi

Where the heart is, there the muses, there the gods sojourn, and not in any geography of fame. Massachusetts, Connecticut River, and Boston Bay,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We lived, until I was 12 or so, in communal apartment with five different families and the same kitchen, in two little - my…

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

Many people don't give a rip about politics and know as much about public affairs as they know about the topography of Pluto.

— Tony Snow

Topography displays no favorites; North's as near as West. More delicate than the historians' are the map-makers' colors.

— Elizabeth Bishop

Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine and valleys of frustration and failure.

— Bill Watterson

The placing of the centre pawns determines the "topography" of a game of chess.

— Alexander Kotov

The world can only appear monochromatic to those who persist in interpreting what they experience through the lens of a single cultural paradigm, their…

— Wade Davis

Each place its own mind, its own psyche! Oak, Madrone, Douglas fir, red-tailed hawk, serpentine in the sandstone, a certain scale to the topography,…

— David Abram

I genuinely find it difficult to think of places that I'd never want to see again. It might be because part of my career…

— Jonathan Meades

Science is the topography of ignorance.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr

We could not, for example, arrive at a principle like that of entropy without introducing some additional principle, such as randomness, to this topography.

— Michael Polanyi

This is what you do now to give your day topography--scan the boxes, read the news, see the chain of your friends reporting about…

— David Levithan