Anyone know any famous quotes concerning Geography?

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    Hello Everyone,

    Well the title says it all, does anybody know any famous quotes from famous geographers, or famous quotes that concern geography?

    Thanks
     
    Jon1771, Nov 20, 2008 IP
  2. TheLex

    TheLex Peon

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    1- Go to Google.com
    2- Type in: geography quotes
    3- Click search
    4- Enjoy!

    :)
     
    TheLex, Nov 20, 2008 IP
  3. EvcRo

    EvcRo Notable Member

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    Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

    "I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain."
    John Adams (1735 - 1826)

    Results from Classic Quotes:

    "Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it."
    Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent
    "History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology."
    James A. Garfield (1831 - 1881)

    Results from Rand Lindsly's Quotations:

    "Anybody who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography."
    Robert Byrne

    Results from The Devil's Dictionary (Ambrose Bierce):

    BOUNDARY, n. "In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of the other."
    Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary

    Results from Contributed Quotations:

    "Without geography you're nowhere."
    Jimmy Buffett
    "Sometimes I think war is God's way of teaching us geography."
    Paul Rodriguez
    "War is God's way of teaching Americans geography."
    Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914)

    ...Good luck! I hope you'll find many more quotes :)
     
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  4. JstWc9

    JstWc9 Member

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    Hi Jon1771,

    Here's a Geography Quote you can have -

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    “Service without ideal of self, trains you
    to transcend all the artificial distinctions
    imposed by history and geography; and
    to realize that, ... the human community
    is 'one and indivisible'.”

    Quote by - Sri Sathya Sai Baba
    [East Indian: Spiritual Leader, b.1926]

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    Sincerely,

    *JstWc9~
    :cool:

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    JstWc9, Nov 22, 2008 IP
  5. JstWc9

    JstWc9 Member

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    Hi Jon1771,

    Here's a another Geography Quote you can have -

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    “My purposes are, ... the geography that marks out
    my line of travel; toward the person I want to be.”

    Quote by - Alice Koeller
    [\]

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    Sincerely,

    *JstWc9~
    :cool:

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    JstWc9, Nov 22, 2008 IP
  6. JstWc9

    JstWc9 Member

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    Hi Jon1771,

    Here's a another Geography Quote you can have -

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

    Quote by - Josephine Hart
    [\]

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    Sincerely,

    *JstWc9~
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    JstWc9, Nov 22, 2008 IP