Attention Quote by Steven Rinella

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

The map had been the first form of misdirection, for what is a map but a way of emphasizing some things and making other…

— Jeff VanderMeer

What is it about maps? I could look at them all day, earnestly studying the names of towns and villages I have never heard…

— Bill Bryson

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

— Gerald Durrell

“It’s something like the map makers around the time of Christopher Columbus, who drew dragons in the margins of maps to indicate bodies of…

— Chuck Frey

“Early mapmakers kept their backs to the sea”

— Sarah Hymas

The maps are really like a filter. They filter information for you to make better decisions on where you are going and what to…

— will.i.am

Rivers must have been the guides which conducted the footsteps of the first travelers. They are the constant lure, when they flow by our…

— Henry David Thoreau

Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit.

— Brooks Atkinson

It's hard to see a river all at once, especially in the mountains. Down on the plains, rivers run in their course as straightforward…

— Lynn Culbreath Noel

Regular maps have few surprises: their contour lines reveal where the Andes are, and are reasonably clear. More precious, though, are the unpublished maps…

— Alexander McCall Smith

People make maps of all the places I've mentioned. I knew that those people were out there. I wanted to create something for them.

— Craig Finn