Hello Everyone, Well the title says it all, does anybody know any famous quotes from famous geographers, or famous quotes that concern geography? Thanks
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
Hi Jon1771, Here's a Geography Quote you can have - = “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] = Sincerely, *JstWc9~ =========================================
Hi Jon1771, Here's a another Geography Quote you can have - = “My purposes are, ... the geography that marks out my line of travel; toward the person I want to be.†Quote by - Alice Koeller [\] = Sincerely, *JstWc9~ =========================================
Hi Jon1771, Here's a another Geography Quote you can have - = “There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; .. we search for its outlines all our lives.†Quote by - Josephine Hart [\] = Sincerely, *JstWc9~ =========================================