Geography
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This page is for quotes on the subject of Geography, the study of the earth and its features, inhabitants, and phenomena.
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- History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology.
- James A. Garfield, as quoted in Freedom IS...: A Book/Journal with a Twist (2008) by Kathleen Wensel, p. 141
- As a young man, my fondest dream was to become a geographer. However... I thought deeply about the matter and concluded that it was far too difficult a subject. With some reluctance, I then turned to physics as a substitute.
- Duane F. Marble, Professor of Geography, posted this on his office door at SUNY at Buffalo, jestingly misattributing it to Albert Einstein; it has since been quoted as if it were a genuine quote of Einstein, and debunked at sites online and in The Ultimate Quotable Einstein (2010) edited by Alice Calaprice, p. 474
- Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it.
- Terry Pratchett in The Last Continent
- Even heavy automobile traffic out of New York City on a summer weekend minutely unbalances the earth as it rotates.
- Paul Allman Siple, in 90° South : The Story of the American South Pole Conquest (1959), p. 279
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- I wanna hang a map of the world in my house. Then I'm gonna put pins into all the locations that I've traveled to. But first, I'm gonna have to travel to the top two corners of the map so it won't fall down.
