Firsts Quote by Jeff VanderMeer

They were maps that lived, maps that one could study, frown over, and add to; maps, in short, that really meant something.

— Gerald Durrell

Everything was too sharp and clear, so that I could never tell where to start- the way a map that shows too much can…

— Haruki Murakami

A map is the dead body of where you've been. A map is the unborn baby of where you're going. There are no maps.…

— Russell Hoban

A map does not just chart, it unlocks and formulates meaning; it forms bridges between here and there, between disparate ideas that we did…

— Reif Larsen

“Map-making had never been a precise art on the Discworld. People tended to start off with good intentions and then get so carried away…

— Terry Pratchett

Maps are a way of organizing wonder.

— Peter Steinhart

There must be something innate about maps, about this one specific way of picturing our world and our relation to it, that charms us,…

— Ken Jennings

Two important characteristics of maps should be noticed. A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure…

— Alfred Korzybski

There’s just something hypnotic about maps.

— Ken Jennings

The map is not the territory... The only usefulness of a map depends on similarity of structure between the empirical world and the map...

— Alfred Korzybski

“A map was a fine thing to study when you were disposed to think of something else, being made up of names that would…

— George Eliot

To ask for a map is to say, "Tell me a story."

— Peter Turchi