#geography

"Eratosthenes, the mapmaker who was the first man to accurately measure the size of the Earth, was a librarian."

"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. And the landscape in which the protein "starts"shapes its end as surely as bowls shape water."

"I gradually became aware that my interiority was inseparable from my exteriority, that the geography of my city was the geography of my soul."

"(Media question to Beatles during first U.S. tour 1964)"How do you find America?""Turn left at Greenland."

"God created war so that Americans would learn geography."

"Love, having no geography, knows no boundaries."