"GEOGRAPHER, n. A chap who can tell you offhand the difference between the outside of the world and the inside."

"History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology."

"I wanna hang a map of the world in my house. Then I'm gonna put pins into all the locations that I've traveled to. Bu…"

"As a young man, my fondest dream was to become a geographer. However... I thought deeply about the matter and conclud…"

"The unique purpose of geography is to seek comprehension of the variable character of areas in terms of all the inter…"

"Since my youth geography has been for me the primary object of study. When I was engaged in it, having applied the co…"

"Ptolemy's Geography is the only book on cartography to have survived from the classical period and one of the most in…"

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

"Even heavy automobile traffic out of New York City on a summer weekend minutely unbalances the earth as it rotates."

"The gods living in the north at the Meru mountain (i.e., at the north pole) see the Sun, after it has risen, for half…"