In particular, Australia, because of its ancient geography, soil profile and distinctive weather patterns, is more adversely affected by climate variability than… — Peter Garrett Copy Share Image
Art is transformative. It's not 2+2=4. It works like the sea. It changes geography through its constant and relentless movement, just the… — Sean Scully Copy Share Image
I can't imagine how American readers will react to a novel, but if the story is appealing it doesn't matter much if… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
When it seems as if God is far away, remind yourself that He is near. Nearness is not a matter of geography.… — Warren W. Wiersbe Copy Share Image
Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
The gulf between Virginia and Maryland isn't only a function of geography. It's also sociological. Indeed, it's probably not much of an… — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
“Even after three hundred maps have been handed out, Ama and I still melt the moment people switch from being suspicious that… — Becky Cooper Copy Share Image
You want a lesson? I'll give you a lesson. How about a geography lesson? My father's from Puerto Rico. My mother's from… — Jennifer Esposito Copy Share Image
Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and… — Moshe Dayan Copy Share Image
“…Catholicism is like Howard Johnson, and what they have are these franchises and they give all these people different franchises in the… — Lenny Bruce Copy Share Image
Never has there been a map, however carefully executed to detail and scale, which has carried its owner over even one inch… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell there political and… — Dr. John Copy Share Image
“A high upland common was this moor, two miles from end to end, and full of furze and bracken. There were no… — A.E. Coppard Copy Share Image
“Inigo was in despair. Hard to find on the map (this was after maps) not because cartographers didn’t know of its existence,… — William Goldman Copy Share Image
“The aim of the research is to determine what groups can be drawn up as a result of regular association of place-names.… — Jennifer K. McArthur Copy Share Image
My parents, grandmother and brother were teachers. My mother taught Latin and French and was the school librarian. My father taught geography… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
I want my books to last, to stand the test of time, and to do that I focus on the forces that… — David Maraniss Copy Share Image
“It was a shack, somewhere out on the outskirts of the Plains town of Scrote. Scrote had a lot of outskirts, spread… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
John Hall, my geography teacher at school inspired me to a lifelong interest in geography and a curiosity about our world which… — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
“I'm not really interested in religion or history or science or mathematics or psychology or politics or geography. I feel I am… — Bill Callahan Copy Share Image
A map such as that one is worth many hundreds, and as luck will have it, thousands of dollars. But more than… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
The brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love, having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink it deep,… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“Fingerprint, he writes. A map to mark the spaces you've inhabited. A map you make yourself, quadrant by quadrant, inch by inch,… — Amber Sparks Copy Share Image
The international community lies at the center of the Obama foreign policy. Unfortunately, it is a fiction. There is no such thing.… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Neurologically, people have a need to feel oriented, to know where they are, not just in terms of a compass and not… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Since biological change occurs slowly and cultural changes occur in every generation, it is futile to try to explain the fleeting phenomena… — Robert Lowie Copy Share Image
Mortal City was really influenced by geography. [The song] "The Ocean" is the Pacific Northwest. Southern California and New York also figure… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
The trace left behind is substituted for the practice. It exhibits the (voracious) property that the geographical system has of being able… — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
Israel is a colonialist-imperialist phenomenon. There is no such thing as an Israeli people. Before 1948, world geography knew of no state… — Muammar al-Gaddafi Copy Share Image
“This will do,” Notak said. “I need to meet my colleague to discuss details. How much do you want for the map?”… — S.G. Night Copy Share Image
Columbus real achievement was managing to cross the ocean successfully in both directions. Though an accomplished enough mariner, he was not terribly… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and… — Moshe Dayan Copy Share Image
For all it is a smaller country in terms of geography, Holland is the most closely aligned market to the U.K. in… — Sara Davies Copy Share Image
“A veritable atlas. What rivers of desire, what mountains of ambition! Want, want, hope, hope. Your palm is nothing but an atlas… — Anuradha Roy Copy Share Image
Geography was the lesson I always looked forward to most. It was a form of escapism. It could be bleak midwinter outside… — Ben Fogle Copy Share Image
“People don't get it. He didn't even have a fuckin' map; what kind of idiot? THAT was the point. There's no blank… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
There must be something innate about maps, about this one specific way of picturing our world and our relation to it, that… — Ken Jennings Copy Share Image
Basically, Islamic State is a combined al Qaeda and Lebanese Hezbollah on steroids, destabilizing the region, dissolving borders/changing the political geography in… — Jim Mattis Copy Share Image
I never thought that I would support myself with art - everyone in the Group of Seven had day jobs. I became… — Robert Bateman Copy Share Image
We need to make sure that the powers that be know that arts education is as vital and as important as geography… — Rosie O'Donnell Copy Share Image