Quotes About Geographers

#1. That is a pathetic inquiry among travelers and geographers after the site of ancient Troy. It is not near where they think it is.When a thing is decayed and gone, how indistinct must be the place it occupied!

Henry David Thoreau

#2. No, this customary aim of research by excavators is completely foreign to the historical work with which I am occupied ... my sole and only aim is to be able to establish a historical fact, on which I disagree with some eminent historians and geographers.

Heinrich Schliemann

#3. AUSTRALIA, n. A country lying in the South Sea, whose industrial and commercial development has been unspeakably retarded by an unfortunate dispute among geographers as to whether it is a continent or an island.

Ambrose Bierce

#4. So geographers, in Africa maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er uninhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns

Jonathan Swift

#5. Geography prepares for the world of work - geographers, with their skills of analysis are highly employable!

Michael Palin

#6. Ten geographers who think the world is flat will tend to reinforce each other's errors ... Only a sailor can set them straight.

John Ralston Saul

#7. firmly believe science is yet in its infancy concerning the cosmology of the earth. There is so much that is unaccounted for by the world's accepted knowledge of to-day, and will ever remain so until the land of "The Smoky God" is known and recognized by our geographers.

Willis George Emerson

#8. Consciousness of a fact is not knowing it: if it were, the fish would know more of the sea than the geographers and the naturalists.

George Bernard Shaw

#9. What I enjoy doing more than anything is, I have my little antique car collection, and when the weather is pretty I like to get out one of my old cars. I have a little route I run down in the country, down Nachez Trace Parkway. The loop down through there is just really relaxing, not much traffic.

Alan Jackson

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

Ambrose Bierce

#11. Derek was telling her something about a hand in a box. It was a dead hand. Why the hell did he have to bring it to me right this second? Was it going anywhere?

Gordon Andrews

#12. You're about as subtle as a fucking train wreck. On a boat.

Doug Walker

#13. I have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the force of gravity, but I have not yet assigned a cause to gravity.

Isaac Newton

#14. Melanie finds this interesting in spite of herself - that you can use words to hide things, or not to touch them, or to pretend that they're something different than they are.

M.R. Carey

#15. I probably could have handled things a hell of a lot better, but what do you do when someone shoves a grenade at you, pulls the pin and tells you to make the best of the situation? Fuck if I know.

Autumn Doughton

#16. Sometimes inexplicably the past becomes intermingled with the present

Felicity Snowden

#17. You can never be happily married to the one you are not happily in-a-relationship with.

Olaotan Fawehinmi

#18. Reading and writing were a dangerous business; they made you think.

Gemma Malley