Quotes About Cartography

#1. I've always been fascinated by maps and cartography. A map tells you where you've been, where you are, and where you're going
in a sense it's three tenses in one.

Peter Greenaway

#2. Mapping and visualization is a huge area of work and is of interest to many people. We're working on reinventing a new kind of 3D cartography to make it easier to tell stories with 3D maps.

Jack Dangermond

#3. Angela Davis offers a cartography of engagement in oppositional social movements and unwavering commitment to justice.

Chandra Talpade Mohanty

#4. Cartography and geographic thinking are cool.

Jack Dangermond

#5. Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come.

Gilles Deleuze

#6. Like many of the people quoted on this dust-cover, I have not read Carl King's book. I am confident, however, that my review still applies: So, You're a Creative Genius is the best book available on modern cartography.

Heather Anne Campbell

#7. Seriously, there ought to be a cartography class for women who want to map out a man's geography to remember fondly later.

Sierra Woods

#8. Trying to map the brain has often been called cartography for fools.

Anonymous

#9. Children are a kind of cartography, and all one has to do is obey the map they present to you on the day they are born.

Hanya Yanagihara

#10. Childhood is a branch of cartography.

Michael Chabon

#11. Cartography. A watershed is an area of land, usually mountains or forests, that drains into a river. History is also a river. Wouldn't you say so?

Stephen King

#12. Maps codify the miracle of existence.

Nicholas Crane

#13. He had electric blue hair that had stuck around his head like tendrils of a startled octopus.

Cassandra Clare

#14. Maybe it's just the fact that this has been one bitch of a day. Either way, his question annoys me. I kind of want to reach across the coffee table and smack him.

Rysa Walker

#15. The virtue of maps, they show what can be done with limited space, they foresee that everything can happen therein.

Jose Saramago

#16. Folk like to pretend they know everything about the world. Rich folk especially. Maps are great for that. [ ... ] You don't have blanks on your map, so the folks who draw them shade in a piece and write, 'The Eld.' You might as well burn a hole right through the map for what good that does.

Patrick Rothfuss

#17. Reality is all-encompassing: the absolute nature is one. Although we may feel separate from the original uncreated reality - whether we call it 'God,' 'peak experience,' or 'enlightened mind' - through awareness we can contact this essential part of ourselves.

Tarthang Tulku

#18. To put a city in a book, to put the world on one sheet of paper
maps are the most condensed humanized spaces of all ... They make the landscape fit indoors, make us masters of sights we can't see and spaces we can't cover.

Robert Harbison

#19. To lovers of adventure and novelty, Africa displays a most ample field.

James Rennell

#20. I am not a doctor,' I replied, 'I only help those who come to me in desperation. When a man is brought to me naked I do not know his race or allegiance. I will treat the sick, and if you do not allow me to do so, then I will treat no one.

Theresa Breslin

#21. Interestingly, the more Americans report knowing about Muslim countries, the more likely they are to hold positive views of those countries. (p. 155)

John L. Esposito

#22. May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.

Robert A. Heinlein

#23. Uncharted territory," I said. "The parts on the maps of our lives that we don't understand. In cartographer's language they call these places sleeping beauties.

Christopher Barzak

#24. for wise men, gold is the metal that evolved the furthest.

Paulo Coelho