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#geography

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If some countries have too much history, we have too much geography.


Mackenzie King


#geography #history #much #some #too

Note for Americans and other aliens: Milton Keynes is a new city approximately halfway between London and Birmingham. It was built to be modern, efficient, healthy, and, all in all, a pleasant place to live. Many Britons find this amusing.


Neil Gaiman


#geography #humor #humour #humor

In the poetry of arrival, the garage door is free verse; the front door can be anything from a rhyming couplet to a sonnet.


Akiko Busch


#home

London opens to you like a novel itself. [...] It is divided into chapters, the chapters into scenes, the scenes into sentences; it opens to you like a series of rooms, door, passsage, door. Mayfair to Piccadilly to Soho to the Strand.


Anna Quindlen


#geography #literary-london #london #metropolis #similes

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


#metaphor #science #sea-lion #snail #systems-analyst

All I ever wanted was a world without maps.


Michael Ondaatje


#english

- Com'è l'Africa? - gli chiedevano. - Stanca.


Alessandro Baricco


#geography #africa

Dreams are our only geography—our native land.


Dejan Stojanovic


#dreams #geography #land #literature #literature-quotes

British crime stories tend to be very internal, psychological, claustrophobic, very limited in terms of geography.


Lee Child


#claustrophobic #crime #geography #internal #limited

When I was in the fourth grade, I became intensely interested in geography and I learned it well.


Clyde Tombaugh


#fourth #geography #grade #i #intensely






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