#geography

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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

Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you because geography books no longer exist.


Moshe Dayan


#because #blame #books #built #even

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


Robert Byrne


#believes #flunked #geography #heart #his

Bhutan does seem a bit unreal at times. Hardly anybody in the U.S. knows where it is. I have friends who still think the entire country is a figment of my imagination. When I was getting ready to move there, and I told people I was going to work in Bhutan, they'd inevitably ask, "Where's Butane?" It is near Africa," I'd answer, to throw them off the trail. "It's where all the disposable lighters come from." They'd nod in understanding.


Linda Leaming


#geography #humor #ignorance #humor

If geography is prose, maps are iconography.


Lennart Meri


#iconography #maps #prose

The topography of literature, the fact in fiction,is one of my pleasures -- I mean, where the living road enters the pages of a book, and you are able to stroll along both the real and imagined road.


Paul Theroux


#literature #place #topography #imagination

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.


John F. Kennedy


#asunder #economics #friends #geography #god

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

All I ever wanted was a world without maps.


Michael Ondaatje


#english

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