John Hanning Speke Quotes

I had the Big Horn river explored from Wind River mountain to my place of embarkation.

I wanted to be a topographer when I was young.

I would stare at maps of Delaware for hours.

Afghanistan is a land-locked country.

Geography is everywhere

History is not intelligible without geography.

Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come.

We were just looking at maps.

If geography is prose, maps are iconography.

There's just something hypnotic about maps.

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

Japanese maps tend to come in two varieties: small, schematic, and bewildering; and large, fantastically detailed, and bewildering.

They have a book of locations, and we would do a story about the Sahara Desert for instance, and in the California book you would find a comparable location, to match that location in California.

Everything has to do with geography.

Cartography and geographic thinking are cool.

I've always been fascinated and stared at maps for hours as a kid. I've especially been most intrigued by the uninhabited or lonelier places on the planet. Like Greenland, for instance, or just recently flying over Alaska and a chain of icy, mountainous islands, uninhabited.

For some reason the most devoted mapheads seem to be kids.

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

Some persons were to be sent in search of the river Missouri in order to discover whether it had any communication with the Pacific Ocean …

Mapping, both literal and metaphorical, has always been about our quest for knowing.

Without geography you're nowhere.

Geography is destiny.

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.

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

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