Geographical Quotes

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Dig a trench through a landfill and you will see layers of phone books like geographical strata or layers of cake.... During a recent landfill… — William Rathje
Much of the geographical work of the past hundred years... has either explicitly or implicitly taken its inspiration from biology, and in particular Darwin. Many… — David Stoddart
The data set of proxies of past climate used in Mann...for the estimation of temperature from 1400 to 1980 contains collation errors, unjustifiable truncation or… — Steve McIntyre
Unlike most heritages, Western civilization is not primarily a geographical place or a genetic bloodline. It is a state of mind. No matter where on… — Terri Runnels
Most of the monsters... are based on some sort of mythology. Every culture and even some geographical areas have monsters and mythology that is their… — Laurell K. Hamilton
I have discovered three things which know no geographical borders - classical music, American jazz, and applause as the sign of the public's favor. — Jascha Heifetz
Online learning can be a lifeline to those who have obstacles, such as geographical distances or physical disabilities. — Paul Levinson
The end of the [geographical] exploration is the beginning of the [missionary] enterprise. — David Livingstone
The geographical movement of money and commodities as capital is not the same as the movements of products and of precious metals. Capital is, after… — David Harvey
If we do not learn to regard a war, and the separate campaigns of which it is composed, as a chain of linked engagements each… — Carl von Clausewitz
Although random mutations influenced the course of evolution, their influence was mainly by loss, alteration, and refinement... Never, however, did that one mutation make a… — Lynn Margulis
Our Bodies, Ourselves is the bible for women's health--It has served as a way for women, across ethnic, racial, religious, and geographical boundaries, to start… — Byllye Avery
The trace left behind is substituted for the practice. It exhibits the (voracious) property that the geographical system has of being able to transform action… — Michel de Certeau
What distinguishes [Afropolitans] is a willingness to complicate Africa â€“ namely, to engage with, critique, and celebrate the parts of Africa that mean most to… — Taiye Selasi
Events are the ephemera of history; they pass across its stage like fireflies, hardly glimpsed before they settle back into darkness and as often as… — Fernand Braudel
To get to New Orleans you don't pass through anywhere else. That geographical location, being aloof, lets it hold onto the ritual of its own… — Allen Toussaint
I like to think of mathematicians as forming a nation of our own without distinctions of geographical origin, race, creed, sex, age or even time...… — Julia Robinson
It may happen that the enemies of Islam may consider it expedient not to take any action against Islam, if Islam leaves them alone in… — Sayyid Qutb
Since 1970, relationships can be more volatile, jobs more ephemeral, geographical mobility more intensified, stability of marriage weaker. — Mary Douglas
The particular feature of Berlin - well, all you need to do is look at the map: the geographical position of the city right in… — Markus Wolf

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