#geography

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

Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic. ↗

— John James Audubon

#dull #enthusiastic #geography #hard #i

I like geography. I like to know where places are. ↗

— Tom Felton

#i #know #like #places #where

The door might not be opened to a woman again for a long, long time, and I had a kind of duty to other women to walk in and sit down on the chair that was offered, and so establish the right of others long hence and far distant in geography to sit in the high seats. ↗

— Frances Perkins

#chair #distant #door #down #duty

Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#humor #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

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

As a state we are so uniquely positioned in so many ways. Our geography, our placement in the country, and our history positions us to be the state that propels energy efficiency as an industry. ↗

— Jennifer Granholm

#efficiency #energy #energy efficiency #geography #history

Everything has to do with geography. ↗

— Judy Martz

#geography