Edward Burnett Tylor Quotes

Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.

Everything has to do with geography.

My first occupation was to map the country.

But you have to take all of those things, you have to take into consideration the paths, the roadways, how much cloud cover there is, how much foliage cover there is, whether there are streams, all of that comes into play.

Northwest Ohio is flat. There isn't much up. The land is so flat that a child from Toledo is under the impression that the direction hills go is down. Sledding is done down from street level into creek beds and road cuts.

The ancient boundary of Italy on the north was not the Alps but the Apennines.

Afghanistan is a land-locked country.

Although mountains may guide migrations, the plains are the regions where people dwell in greatest numbers.

All the world lies warm in one heart, yet the Sierra seems to get more light than other mountains. The weather is mostly sunshine embellished with magnificent storms, and nearly everything shines from base to summit - the rocks, streams, lakes, glaciers, irised falls, and the forests of silver fir and silver pine.

Geography is destiny.

Everywhere's been where it is ever since it was first put there. It's called geography.

In battle, topography is fate.

The nature of the place...whether high or low, moist or dry, whether sloping north or south, or bearing tall trees or low shrubs...generally gives hint as to its inhabitants.

Alaska is our biggest, buggiest, boggiest state. Texas remains our largest unfrozen state. But mountainous Utah, if ironed out flat, would take up more space on a map than either.

The roaring seas and many a dark range of mountains lie between us.

I like geography best, he said, because your mountains & rivers know the secret. Pay no attention to boundaries.

The Alps are a simple folk, living on a diet of old shoes. And the Lord Alps those who alp themselves.

The natural formation of the country is the soldier's best ally

In our changing world nothing changes more than geography.

I remember as a child reading or hearing the words 'The Great Divide' and being stunned by the glorious sound, a proper sound for the granite backbone of a continent. I saw in my mind escarpments rising into the clouds, a kind of natural Great Wall of China.

I've always been fascinated by maps and cartography. A map tells you where you've been, where you are, and where you're going -- in a sense it's three tenses in one.

Sometimes when I’m flying over the Alps I think, 'that’s like all the cocaine I sniffed.'

We were just looking at maps.

There are a lot of mountains with a lot of water.

They were maps that lived, maps that one could study, frown over, and add to; maps, in short, that really meant something.