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“Three or four times only in my youth did I glimpse the Joyous Isles, before they were lost to fogs, depressions, cold fronts, ill winds, and contrary tides... I mistook them for adulthood. Assuming...”
“North Korean troops gathering inside North Korea.That is unheard of.""They were massing very close to the border.""North Korea is the size of Ohio. It would be geographically challenging for them t...”
“War does one goodit teaches people geography.”
“Everywhere's been where it is ever since it was first put there. It's called geography.”
“let us start by picturing the Japan archipelago lying in the sea by the Chinese mainland. If its proximity allowed it to become part of the Sinosphere and acquire a written culture, its distance be...”
“The topography of literature, the fact in fiction,is one of my pleasures -- I mean, where the living road enters the pages of a book, and you are able to stroll along both the real and imagined road.”
“Individual identities and national destines were shaped by the tripod of history, geography, and philosophy.”
“History rhymes, but geography endures.”
“Im learning geography is about lossand so I keep moving”
“There is adventure in finding compelling stories and exploring complex issues in challenging environments, but there is also a responsibility to tell those stories accurately and objectively.”
“Do you understand the sadness of geography?”
“The South Pacific is not a paradise, in the sense that Eden wasn't either. There are always apples and snakes. But it is a wonderful place to live. The green vales of Tahiti, the hills of Guadalcan...”
“Man was first a hunter, and an artist: his early vestiges tell us that alone. But he must always have dreamed, and recognized and guessed and supposed, all the skills of the imagination. Language i...”
“Since he had given up men he had taken up geography. He visited a new sight or a new neighborhood nearly every weekend.”
“This happened back east of course. I've heard that term a lot since coming to this part of the country. But I never think of the term as a marker of geography. It's a reference to time, a statement...”
“The truth is, until you know any different, the island is enough.Actually, I know different. And it's still enough.”
“Geography is the key, the crucial accident of birth. A piece of protein could be a snail, a sea lion, or a systems analyst, but it had to start somewhere. This is not science; it is merely metaphor...”
“I was not sorry for loving Charleston or for leaving it. Geography had made me who I was.”
“Love, having no geography, knows no boundaries.”
“I like science - geography, meteorology, cosmology.”
