Geographical Feature Quotes

Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi.

Stirling, like a huge brooch, clasps Highlands and Lowlands together.

The plateau of Mexico is 8,000 feet high, and that of Puebla 9,000 feet.

The city of Cork - the urban center, where all the shops and bars and everything are - is actually an island, a river island.

Gold was not altogether certain what, anatomically, a gorge was, but he knew that his was rising.

A lone peak of high point is a natural focal point in the landscape, something by which both travelers and local orient themselves. In the continuum of landscape, mountains are discontinuity -- culminating in high points, natural barriers, unearthly earth.

Oxus, forgetting the bright speed he had In his high mountain cradle in Pamere, A foiled circuitous wanderertill at last The longed-for dash of waves is heard, and wide His luminous home of waters opens, bright And tranquil, from whose floor the new-bathed stars Emerge, and shine upon the Aral Sea.

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.

The contour eludes me.