Area Quote by Richard Leakey

“The earth’s surface measures about 200 million square miles, of which 60 million is land. As late as AD 1400, the vast majority of…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“As late as AD 1400, the vast majority of farmers, along with their plants and animals, clustered together in an area of just 11…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Who would have thought around 1900 that in fifty years time we would know so much more and understand so much less.

— Albert Einstein

The back windows looked out over the fields, then the Atlantic, maybe a hundred yards away. Actually, I'm just making that bit up. I…

— Marian Keyes

“The peculiarity of the Battle of Waterloo was its narrow compass, with 140,000 men crammed into three square miles; the front was only four…

— Frank McLynn

It would probably astound each of them beyond measure to be let into his neighbor's mind and to find how different the scenery there…

— William James

“In the 40,000 year time scale we're all the same people. We're all equally primitive, give or take two or three thousand years here…

— Gary Snyder

Men can read maps better than women. Cause only the male mind could conceive of one inch equaling a hundred miles.

— Anonymous

Men read maps better than women because only men can understand the concept of an inch equaling a hundred miles.

— Roseanne Barr

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they…

— Golda Meir

When I read that the British army had landed thirty-two thousand troops - and I had realized, not very long before, that Philadelphia only…

— David McCullough

Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago.

— John Boyd Orr