Lennart Meri Quotes

Cartography and geographic thinking are cool.

Even before you understand them, your brain is drawn to maps.

There's just something hypnotic about maps.

History is not intelligible without geography.

I wanted to be a topographer when I was young.

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.

I am an agnostic on most matters of faith, but on the subjects of maps I have always been a true believer. It is on the map, therefore it is, and I am.

I have always preferred maps to books. They don't answer you back.

There must be something innate about maps, about this one specific way of picturing our world and our relation to it, that charms us, calls to us, won’t let us look anywhere else in the room if there’s a map on the wall.

I would stare at maps of Delaware for hours.

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

Mapping and visualization is a huge area of work and is of interest to many people. We're working on reinventing a new kind of 3D cartography to make it easier to tell stories with 3D maps.

My first occupation was to map the country.

GIS is the only technology that actually integrates many different subjects using geography as its common framework.

As Geography without History seemeth a carkasse without motion; so History without Geography wandreth as a Vagrant without a certaine habitation.

We emphasise the features on satellite maps by adding colours to farmland, urban structures, archaeological sites, vegetation and water.

We have built many of our systems with maps as the foundation. We are seeing that a lot of intelligent businesses are doing the same.

In our changing world nothing changes more than geography.

We were just looking at maps.

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

That’s what a map is, you know. Just a memory.

I'm not a religious person. The language of photography is symbolic.

We have been supporting GIS in schools for more than 25 years.

GIS, in its digital manifestation of geography, goes beyond just the science. It provides us a framework and a process for applying geography. It brings together observational science and measurement and integrates it with modeling and prediction, analysis, and interpretation so that we can understand things.