#geography

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

I failed world geography, civics, Spanish and English. And when you fail Spanish and English, they do not consider you bilingual. They may call you bi-ignorant because you can't speak any language. ↗

— Tim Scott

#because #bilingual #call #civics #consider

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

Three or four times only in my youth did I glimpse the Joyous Isles, before they were lost to fogs, depressions, cold fronts, ill winds, and contrary tides... I mistook them for adulthood. Assuming they were a fixed feature in my life's voyage, I neglected to record their latitude, their longitude, their approach. Young ruddy fool. What wouldn't I give now for a never-changing map of the ever-constant ineffable? To possess, as it were, an atlas of clouds. ↗

— David Mitchell

#happiness #change

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

If geography is prose, maps are iconography. ↗

— Lennart Meri

#iconography #maps #prose

Geography and mileage mean nothing. Separate is a single word that covers all distances that aren't together. ↗

— Rivera Sun

#friendship #geography #inspirational #literature-quotes #love

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