Geography Quotes

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.

~ Annie Dillard

Much of the geographical work of the past hundred years... has either explicitly or implicitly taken its inspiration from biology, and in particular Darwin. Many of the original Darwinians, such as Hooker, Wallace, Huxley, Bates, and Darwin himself, were actively concerned with geographical exploration, and it was largely facts of geographical distribution in a spatial setting which provided Darwin with the germ of his theory.

~ David R. Stoddart

Can you see the sunset real good on the West side? You can see it on the East side too.

~ S.e. Hinton

He who is ready to die for his country is a fool. For he didn’t choose where he was born, and where he was born didn’t choose him.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I was not sorry for loving Charleston or for leaving it. Geography had made me who I was.

~ Sue Monk Kidd

Education is political.

~ Noel Castree

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

~ Jean Fernel

New York is an ugly city, a dirty city. Its climate is a scandal, its politics are used to frighten children, its traffic is madness, its competition is murderous. But there is one thing about it - once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough.

~ John Steinbeck

I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.

~ Dan C. Quayle

I sketched North America onto my crude and now crowded map, and Hao was astounded to learn that it was not a piece of Europe, as he had always assumed.

~ Howard W. French

Geography and mileage mean nothing. Separate is a single word that covers all distances that aren't together.

~ Rivera Sun

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.

~ Ambrose Bierce

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

~ Paul Rodriguez

Love, having no geography, knows no boundaries.

~ Truman Capote

GIS, in its digital manifestation of geography, goes beyond just the science. It provides us a framework and a process for applying geography. It brings together observational science and measurement and integrates it with modeling and prediction, analysis, and interpretation so that we can understand things.

~ Jack Dangermond

I like science - geography, meteorology, cosmology.

~ Randy Newman

My family is no different from yours. We may be different from the geography that we come from. Some of you all may pray differently than I do, some of you all may be from a different ethnicity, but we all have the same story.

~ Cory Booker

Landscape architecture is basically geodesign; it's designing geography. And yet geodesign is not only done by landscape architects, it's done by some of the world's largest corporations.

~ Jack Dangermond

If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace.

~ Ludwig Von Mises

To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.

~ George Santayana

'Air' is what the world looks like: An inconvenient mashup of human politics and divine geography. We leave bits and pieces of ourselves and our history in every place we encounter.

~ G. Willow Wilson

GIS is the only technology that actually integrates many different subjects using geography as its common framework.

~ Jack Dangermond