Elephants Quote by Jonathan Swift

“Whose maps are we trying to read? And what are we trying to draw? It's so common to live in a place without truly…

— Rebecca Solnit

“To put a city in a book, to put the world on one sheet of paper -- maps are the most condensed humanized spaces…

— Robert Harbison

“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

“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

As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes in the…

— Plutarch

“When you’re a cartographer, having to make maps sort of comes with the territory.”

— Jarod Kintz

“Uncharted territory,” I said. “The parts on the maps of our lives that we don’t understand. In cartographer’s language they call these places sleeping…

— Christopher Barzak

“The pictures were designed to soothe without arousing interest – engravings of cows in ponds, deer in streams, dogs in lakes. Wet animals seem…

— John Steinbeck

“All those fascinating varieties of terrain—mountains and valleys, fiords and straits, gulfs and streams—that make Europe a panorama of diverse delight, have broken the…

— Will Durant

“One of the most connective things we can do for ourselves, is to become world travelers of our own internal landscapes. What i love…

— Jaeda DeWalt

Geography is the art of the mappable.

— Peter Haggett

“Wherever you are, with whatever means you have, if you reclaim a piece of land for nature, your world will grow kinder, more benevolent.…

— Boyd Varty