History Quote by Élisée Reclus Download Open image ““Geography is history in place, history is geography in time”” — Élisée Reclus ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare History Time
“Geography is like history. History is the story of mankind since we first started to record it. The story and the understanding of that… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
Even as regards Earth we are more committed to history than to geography, more committed to time than to space. History is endless. Place… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
When you connect as many memories to your geography as I have, and then you see that geography change around you, you're forced to… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
“one can discourage too much history in one's family, but one cannot always prevent geography.” — Saki Copy Share Image
History is a compass that you locate yourself on the map of human geography, politically, culturally, financially. — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
“A sentence in Auden's Airman's Journal has always seemed very profound to me ---I haven't the book here so I can't quote it exactly,… — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share Image
“History is not a map to be read, nor a path to be followed. It is a landscape of contours and textures, of colours… — Tom Lloyd Copy Share Image
“One overriding fact dominates all of modern civilization, the fact that the property of a single person can increase indefinitely, and even, by virtue… — Élisée Reclus Copy Share Image
“A sincere person owes it to themselves to expose the frightful barbarity which still prevails in the hidden depths of a society so outwardly… — Élisée Reclus Copy Share Image
“The power of kings and emperors has limits, but that of wealth has none at all. The dollar is the master of masters.” — Élisée Reclus Copy Share Image
An individual can be truly moral only when they are their own master. From the moment when they awaken to a comprehension of that… — Elisee Reclus Copy Share Image
“In a word, commercial competition, under the paternal aegis of the law, allows the great majority of merchants-— and this fact is attested to… — Élisée Reclus Copy Share Image
“Laissez faire! Let things alone! have said the judges of the camp. Careers are open; and although the field is covered with corpses, although… — Élisée Reclus Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
