Geography Quotes Page 2

Just as none of us is outside or beyond geography, none of us is completely free from the struggle over geography. That struggle is complex and interesting because it is not only about soldiers and cannons but also about ideas, about forms, about images and imaginings.

The actual flower is the plant's highest fulfilment, and are not here exclusively for herbaria, county floras and plant geography: they are here first of all for delight.

To build a theory of international relations on accidents of geography and history is dangerous.

Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.

Chris Martin looks like a geography teacher.

The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach.

Getting lost was not a matter of geography so much as identity, a passionate desire, even an urgent need, to become no one and anyone, to shake off the shackles that remind you who you are, who others think you are.

Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it.

Here's a tip, Alyconeus. Next time you choose the biggest state for your home, don't set up base in the part that's only 10 miles wide. Welcome to Canada, idiot.

Geography is the key, the crucial accident of birth.

A piece of protein could be a snail, a sea lion, or a systems analyst, but it had to start somewhere. This is not science; it is merely metaphor. And the landscape in which the protein "starts" shapes its end as surely as bowls shape water.

Sometimes I think war is God's way of teaching us geography.

Religion is a mere question of geography.

If some countries have too much history, we have too much geography.

Descriptive anatomy is to physiology what geography is to history, and just as it is not enough to know the typography of a country to understand its history, so also it is not enough to know the anatomy of organs to understand their functions.

Anatomy is to physiology as geography is to history; it describes the theatre of events.

With the revolution in information technology, with the revolution in transport technologies, I think just geography has lost its all significance.

If we finished our work, the teacher would say, 'Now don't read ahead.

' But sometimes I hid the book I was reading behind my geography book and did read ahead. You can hide a lot behind a geography book.

There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives.

I believe very strongly, and have fought since many years ago - at least over 30 years ago - to get architecture not just within schools, but architecture talked about under history, geography, science, technology, art.

History is all explained by geography.

Geography has no bearing on it, nor have the interests of the community in which I work.

When Brian told me he grew up in New Mexico, I told him I thought it is cool that people from other countries play football. He corrected me on my geography and agreed to sit down with me anyway.

Of pure poetry there are two kinds, that which mirrors the beauty of the world in which our bodies are, and that which builds the more mysterious kingdoms where geography ends and fairyland begins, with gods and heroes at war, and the sirens singing still, and Alph going down to the darkness from Xanadu.

I never thought that I would support myself with art - everyone in the Group of Seven had day jobs. I became a geography teacher so that I could get free field trips into the wilderness to paint.

I like geography. I could tell you the capital of any country you want.

The peculiar value of geography lies in its fitness to nourish the mind with ideas and furnish the imagination with pictures.

Everywhere's been where it is ever since it was first put there. It's called geography.

While writing Cold Mountain, I held maps of two geographies, two worlds, in my mind as I wrote. One was an early map of North Carolina. Overlaying it, though, was an imagined map of the landscape Jack travels in the southern Appalachian folktales. He's much the same Jack who climbs the beanstalk, vulnerable and clever and opportunistic.

The brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love, having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink it deep, no matter, it will rise and find the surface.

My wound is geography. It is also my anchorage, my port of call.

We have 45,000 square miles of geography in Ohio.

We have 45,000 square miles of geography in Ohio.

While the distance between the United States and Iraq is great, Saddam Hussein's ability to use his chemical and biological weapons against us is not constrained by geography - it can be accomplished in a number of different ways - which is what makes this threat so real and persuasive.

It doesn't matter if a character is a lawyer, a cop or a geography teacher.

If there's a story in there, where the character has a passion and a fire in his belly and story to tell, then it's enough for an actor to get excited about.

The people [in the USA] are not very well informed.

They certainly don`t know history. They certainly are not interested in foreign affairs very much, unless it comes right to their doorstep. They all learn history through wars. They learn geography through wars.