“You must name a thing before you can note it on your hand drawn map.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Some hills are each only a few centimeters short of being a mountain.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Old geography studied nature. Modern geography mostly studies alternation in nature — Mohammad MUSTAFA Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“I usually say mapmaker, and let the smarty pants say ‘cartographer’ because they’ve watched Jeopardy . ” — Michael Siegel Copy Share Image
Maps encourage boldness. They're like cryptic love letters. They make anything seem possible. — Mark Jenkins Copy Share Image
Geography has no bearing on it, nor have the interests of the community in which I work. — Yves Tanguy Copy Share Image
I gradually became aware that my interiority was inseparable from my exteriority, that the geography of my city was the geography of… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Paris is not a city, it is the image, the symbol of France, its today and yesterday, the reflection of its history,… — Nina Berberova Copy Share Image
“Folk like to pretend they know everything about the world. Rich folk especially. Maps are great for that. [...] You don't have… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
If we finished our work, the teacher would say, 'Now don't read ahead.' But sometimes I hid the book I was reading… — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
Idiom is larger than geography it is the hot breath of a people singing, slashing, explorative. Imagery becomes the magic denominator, the… — Mari Evans Copy Share Image
Australia - not western in geography, of course, but in every other respect for sure (it certainly doesn't want to be regarded… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
For whatever you're doing, for your creative juices, your geography's got a hell of a lot to do with it. You really… — Neil Young Copy Share Image
I have always had a love for American geography, and especially for the landscapes of the South. One of my pleasures has… — Willie Morris Copy Share Image
To make revolution in Korea we must know Korean history and geography as well as the customs of the Korean people. Only… — Kim Il-sung Copy Share Image
I would say that the fundamental question of geography is about how humans shaped the Earth's surface and how we, in turn,… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
The very best [infographics] engender and facilitate an insight by visual means — allow us to grasp some relationship quickly and easily… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
What's your story? It's all in the telling. Stories are compasses and architecture; we navigate by them, and to be without a… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
We probably have, right now, after the Civil Rights movement - and this was very unfortunate - the most glaring time of… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
“The South Pacific is not a paradise, in the sense that Eden wasn't either. There are always apples and snakes. But it… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
“Over the years I’ve learned that a surefooted and confident mapmaker does not a swift traveler make. I stumble and fall, and… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
“a bad map is worse than no map at all for it engendered in the traveler a false confidence and might easily… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Regular maps have few surprises: their contour lines reveal where the Andes are, and are reasonably clear. More precious, though, are the… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“I don’t know if you have ever seem a map of a person’s mind. Doctors sometimes draw maps of other parts of… — J.M. Barrie Copy Share Image
“A guerra é a forma de Deus ensinar geografia aos americanos.” — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I spent almost no time studying categories like geography and sports, even though they came up frequently on 'Jeopardy,' because I'm already… — James Holzhauer Copy Share Image
The map is not the territory (coined by Alfred Korzybski), and the name is not the thing named. — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
My idea is to make moves to bring chess back to the world's map, to make it part of the world's geography… — Anatoly Karpov Copy Share Image
![“Folk like to pretend they know everything about the world. Rich folk especially. Maps are great for that. [...] You don't have blanks on your map, so the folks who draw them shade in a piece and write, 'The Eld.' You might as well burn a hole right through the map for what good that does.” quote by Patrick Rothfuss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/267/patrick-rothfuss-145_cartography_folk-like-to-pretend-they-know-everythin_2205937.jpg)
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