Following is our list of the most famous topography quotations and slogans. We've compiled this selection of inspirational topography quotes. Hopefully, these topography quotes will keep you motivated not only during hard times but to expand your topography knowledge!
Geography is the art of the mappable. — Peter Haggett
Topology is precisely the mathematical discipline that allows the passage from local to global. — Rene Thom
If geography is prose, maps are iconography. — Lennart Meri
I like geography. I like to know where places are. — Tom Felton
Geography can be about the triumph of the human spirit as much as the subjugation of earth by the human hand. — Tim Marshall
Geography does not change, but man does, and man can change geography. — Tim Marshall
The landscape everywhere, away from the river, is of rock - cliffs of rock; plateaus of rock; terraces of rock; crags of rock - ten thousand strangely carved forms. — John Wesley Powell
[Geology] opens up such wide intellectual vistas and supplies a more perfectly unified and more comprehensive conception of nature than any other science. — Rosa Luxemburg
The interior landscape responds to the character and subtlety of the exterior landscape; the shape of the individual mind is affected by the land as it is by genes. — Barry Lopez
Why is geometry often described as cold and dry? One reason lies in its inability to describe the shape of a cloud, a mountain, a coastline or a tree. — Benoit Mandelbrot
Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery. — John Ruskin
Geography is the subject which holds the key to our future — Michael Palin
Short Topography Quotes
The placing of the centre pawns determines the "topography" of a game of chess. — Alexander Kotov
Learn the true topography; the monstrous and wonderful archetypes are not inside you, not inside your consciousness; you are inside them, trapped and howling to get out — R. A. Lafferty
The world can only appear monochromatic to those who persist in interpreting what they experience through the lens of a single cultural paradigm, their own. For those with the eyes to see and the heart to feel, it remains a rich and complex topography of the spirit. — Wade Davis
Not one piece of evidence has ever been found to support the Book of Mormon-not a trace of the large cities it names, no ruins, no coins, no letters or documents or monuments, nothing in writing. Not even one of the rivers or mountains or any of the topography it mentions has ever been identified. — Dave Hunt
A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins. — Charles Lamb
We could not, for example, arrive at a principle like that of entropy without introducing some additional principle, such as randomness, to this topography. — Michael Polanyi
Many people don't give a rip about politics and know as much about public affairs as they know about the topography of Pluto. — Tony Snow
Topography is one of my chief themes in my poetry, about the country, the suburbs and the seaside. Then there comes love... and increasingly; the fear of death. — John Betjeman
Architectural features of true democratic ground-freedom would rise naturally from topography, which means that buildings would all take on the nature and character of the ground on which in endless variety they would stand and be component part. — Frank Lloyd Wright
I genuinely find it difficult to think of places that I'd never want to see again. It might be because part of my career has been concerned with writing about topography. — Jonathan Meades
Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine and valleys of frustration and failure. — Bill Watterson
Golf is the only game that pits the player against an opponent, the weather, the minutest details of a large chunk of local topography and his own nervous system, all at the same time. — Mike Seabrook
Topography displays no favorites; North's as near as West.
More delicate than the historians' are the map-makers' colors. — Elizabeth Bishop
Until very recently, the heavenly bodies have been investigated only with reference to their position and their laws of motion, and a quarter of a century ago astronomy was little more than celestial topography. — George Phillips Bond
I really love James Joyce, Dubliners and other work. And I was interested in the way the dash was used in English topography - in his work particularly - and I realized there was no compulsion to use those ugly dot-dot curlicues all over the place to designate dialogue. I began to look around, and found writers who could make transitions quite clear by the language itself. I'm a bit of a maverick now. I'm always trying to push the medium. — John Edgar Wideman
Science is the topography of ignorance. From a few elevated points we triangulate vast spaces, inclosing infinite unknown details. We cast the lead, and draw up a little sand from abysses we may never reach with our dredges. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The wrecking ball is characteristic of our way with materials. We 'cannot afford' to log a forest selectively, to mine without destroying topography, or to farm without catastrophic soil erosion. A production-oriented economy can indeed live in this way, but only so long as production lasts. — Wendell Berry
Whatever strengthens our local attachments is favorable both to individual and national character, our home, our birthplace, our native land. Think for a while what the virtues are which arise out of the feelings connected with these words, and if you have any intellectual eyes, you will then perceive the connection between topography and patriotism. — Robert Southey
Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations; it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness. — Jerry Saltz
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