Landforms Quotes

Without geography you're nowhere.

... there are shadows because there are hills.

Pluto is showing us a diversity of landforms and complexity of processes that rival anything we've seen in the solar system.

I do believe that enduring geological features are important, though I don't think I can be clear about exactly why.

My first reaction to finding Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty in a book was, Wow, what a great photograph! I could not believe that someone had gone to so much trouble just to end up with a picture.

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.

I like geography best, he said, because your mountains & rivers know the secret. Pay no attention to boundaries.

Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise.

Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it.

The topography of L.A. is fascinating.

The mountains are fountains not only of rivers and fertile soil, but of men.

Geography is everywhere

When we take a slight survey of the surface of our globe a thousand objects offer themselves which, though long known, yet still demand our curiosity.

Mountains are to the rest of the body of the earth, what violent muscular action is to the body of man. The muscles and tendons of its anatomy are, in the mountain, brought out with force and convulsive energy, full of expression, passion, and strength.

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