#geography

Nature, I have constantly argued in my work, is the real superpower of this godless universe. It is the ultimate disposer of human fate, randomly recarving geography over 10,000-year epochs. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#constantly #epochs #fate #geography #godless

The art of biography is different from geography. Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps. ↗

— Edmund Clerihew Bentley

#art #biography #chaps #different #geography

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

— Bam Margera

#capital #could #country #geography #i

I want my books to last, to stand the test of time, and to do that I focus on the forces that shape the subject - the cultural and sociological geography - to capture them in a way that will explain them no matter what they are doing. ↗

— David Maraniss

#capture #cultural #doing #explain #focus

(Media question to Beatles during first U.S. tour 1964) "How do you find America?" "Turn left at Greenland. ↗

— Ringo Starr

#beatles #geography #greenland #humor #media

The essential London scenes is a row of low identical houses set around a square. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#city-life #london #urban-geography #imagination

Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps. ↗

— Eric Bentley

#biography #chaps #geography #maps

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#god #teaching #war #way

Perhaps it’s that you can’t go back in time, but you can return to the scenes of a love, of a crime, of happiness, and of a fatal decision; the places are what remain, are what you can possess, are what is immortal. They become the tangible landscape of memory, the places that made you, and in some way you too become them. They are what you can possess and in the end what possesses you. ↗

— Rebecca Solnit

#love

You want a lesson? I'll give you a lesson. How about a geography lesson? My father's from Puerto Rico. My mother's from El Salvador. And neither one of those is Mexico. ↗

— Jennifer Esposito

#el salvador #father #geography #give #how