#Geography Quotes

“The hard soil and four months of snow make the inhabitants of the northern temperate zone wiser and abler than his fellow who enjoys the fixed smile of the tropics.”

“The attraction and superiority of California are in its days. It has better days & more of them, than any other country.”

“Europe extends to the Alleghenies; America lies beyond.”

“Where the banana grows man is sensual and cruel.”

“I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France.”

“The Bad Lands grade all the way from those that are almost rolling in character to those that are so fantastically broken in form and so bizarre in color as to seem hardly properly to belong to this earth.”

“Why are there interstate highways in Hawaii?”

“We get twitted now and then on how we made this country. Well, we took the whole business, of course. It's not just that corner that we took from Mexico. When we got it all together, we got a very shapely country-the best continental cut in all the world, between the two oceans and in the right temperature zone.”

“The Vermont mountains stretch extended straight; New Hampshire mountains curl up in a coil.”

“What makes a nation in the beginning is a good piece of geography.”

“Give children beauty, not the record of bloody slaughters and barbarous brawls, as they call history, or of the latitude and longitude of places nobody cares to visit, as they call geography.”

“Though the words Canada East on the map stretch over many rivers and lakes and unexplored wildernesses, the actual Canada, which might be the colored portion of the map, is but a little clearing on the banks of the river, which one of those syllables would more than cover.”

“The equator was wisely put where it is, because if it had been run through Europe all the kings would have tried to grab it.”

“Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it.”

“If the Earth were a single state, Istanbul would be its capital.”

“The policies of all powers are inherent in their geography.”

“In Russia there are no roads - only areas.”

“The country is an archipelago of lakes,--the lake-country of New England.”

“Chicago is known as the Windy City, and Montana is called the Big Sky State, so I think that we should somehow combine the two to create the ultimate kite-flying experience.”

“If you know a country's geography, you can understand and predict its foreign policy.”

“The knowledge of the past times and of the places of the earth is both an ornament and nutriment to the human mind.”

“So geographers, in Africa maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er uninhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns”

“The Mississippi, the Ganges, and the Nile,... the Rocky Mountains, the Himmaleh, and Mountains of the Moon, have a kind of personal importance in the annals of the world.”

“It might be seen by what tenure men held the earth. The smallest stream is mediterranean sea, a smaller ocean creek within the land, where men may steer by their farm bounds and cottage lights. For my own part, but for the geographers, I should hardly have known how large a portion of our globe is water, my life has chiefly passed within so deep a cove. Yet I have sometimes ventured as far as to the mouth of my Snug Harbor.”

“Right now I would rank Norway as the largest country in the world, I have never seen anything like it”

“Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep.”

“The study of geography is about more than just memorizing places on a map. It's about understanding the complexity of our world, appreciating the diversity of cultures that exists across continents. And in the end, it's about using all that knowledge to help bridge divides and bring people together.”

“Illinois surpasses every other spot of equal extent upon the face of the globe in fertility of soil and in the proportionable amount of the same which is sufficiently level for actual cultivation.”

“The Bay of Bengal is hit frequently by cyclones. The months of November and May, in particular, are dangerous in this regard.”