P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

I cried when I saw how flat Toledo was.

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.

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

The topography of L.A. is fascinating.

... there are shadows because there are hills.

Everything has to do with geography.

Every one knows how the snow lies in the valleys of the Alps, forming a plain which slopes gradually downward towards the outlet Imagine such a valley ten miles across, with just such a sloping plain, not of snow but of earth.

My first occupation was to map the country.

Afghanistan is a land-locked country.

I wanted to be a topographer when I was young.

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.

You may be on land, yet not in a garden.

I'm interested in geography and weather and things like that, and if you don't write love songs, you've gotta go somewhere. I wrote a lot about places because that's what else there was. I had to stop myself from writing more of them.

There is a river in Macedon, and there is moreover a river in Monmouth. It is called Wye at Monmouth, but it is out of my prains what is the name of the other river; but 'tis all one, 'tis alike as my fingers is to my fingers, and there is salmons in both.

The map isn't always the territory, and you have to kind of walk through it to get a feel for it.

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

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

In our changing world nothing changes more than geography.

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.

We were just looking at maps.

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

Over hill and under hill