Edward Burnett Tylor Quotes

If the only thing you knew about Oman was its location, you might never go at all.

Today the traveller on the Nile enters a wonderland at whose gates rise the colossal pyramids of which he has had visions perhaps from earliest childhood.

I live in Canada in the summer and some time in the fall.

I know London very well.

But I'll tell you what, there was a lot of farmland between Falls Church and Washington.

Yes, I guess I am bi-coastal.

Everything has to do with geography.

The Sahara is Africa's great divide.

California has a beautiful coastline. It can be a rough coastline. The waves are huge. The rocks are steep. Same thing in Vancouver. It has a beautiful coastline. It's dramatic.

My first occupation was to map the country.

I'm a great believer in geography being destiny.

For me, our beaches have always been a source of personal inspiration.

My mum lives near Holkham Bay in Norfolk, and with my dad by the coast in Suffolk, I spend quite a bit of time by the sea.

Early on the next morning we reached Kansas, about five hundred miles from the mouth of the Missouri.

Afghanistan is a land-locked country.

If people and their manner of living were alike everywhere, there would not be much point in moving from one place to another.

I grew up right in Santa Cruz, right across the bay from Monterey. I would go to Monterey all the time.

I grew up in Palm Springs, California, which is a suburb like a desert town, and I love it.

I love Michigan.

In Arizona, there's mountains behind my house.

I live in New York and California, and I get to travel.

I know that not many people can go to the Marshall Islands. It is really one of the most remote places on earth.

Geography is destiny.

Not to ask the obvious question, but why Alaska?

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