Color Quote by Elizabeth Bishop

“It is not that the historian can avoid emphasis of some facts and not of others. This is as natural to him as to…

— Howard Zinn

“Of course, any map of the Place would be shocking to anyone with any understanding of geography. As you can see, this is a…

— Elizabeth Knox

The North isn't a place. It's just a direction out of the South.

— Roy Blount, Jr

Any map of the world that does not include Utopia is not even worth glancing at.

— Oscar Wilde

Geography is the art of the mappable.

— Peter Haggett

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

— Anonymous

“the map they are using does not indicate the village of Orce, how very inconsiderate on the part of the cartographers, I’ll bet they…

— jose saramago

Remember always that there not so very much difference between various people as we seem to imagine. Maps and atlases show us countries in…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

It is impossible to understand history, international politics, the world economy, religions, philosophy, or ‘patterns of culture’ without taking geography into account.

— Kenneth C. Davis

“O ineluctable superiority of northernness”

— Salman Rushdie

The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man fronts a fact.

— Henry David Thoreau

West is too materialist; East is too spiritual; North is too cold; South is too loose!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan