"The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town or city."

Geography, Observation, Earth, Science

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"It was very clear that this was a very, very old site. There were remains of sod walls. Fishermen assumed it was an old Indian site. Bu Indians didn't use that kind of buildings and houses."

Helge Ingstad, Norwegian Explorer

Geography, Fishermen, Houses, Old

"There isn't a parallel of latitude but thinks it would have been the equator if it had had its rights."

Mark Twain, American Author

Geography, Rights, Imagination

"All the real things in Russia are done in the villages."

Ernest Poole, American Novelist

Geography, Russia

"A journey of four hundred and thirty miles can be made in any part of the United States, but in Turkey it takes as many days."

Ellsworth Huntington, American Educator

Geography, Journey, States, Turkey, United

"Up to 80 percent of the fish that we catch spend at least part of their lives in estuaries."

Jim Gerlach, American Politician

Geography, Fish

"Estuaries are coastal bays, harbors, sounds and lagoons, places where rivers meet the sea."

Jim Gerlach, American Politician

Geography, Rivers, Sea

"The silver Thames takes some part of this county in its journey to Oxford."

John Aubrey, English Writer

Geography, Journey

"Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks."

Ada Louise Huxtable, American Critic

Geography, Washington

"It was raining in the small, mountainous country of Llamedos. It was always raining in Llamedos. Rain was the country's main export. It had rain mines."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Geography, Truth, Humor, Nature, Wisdom

"I grew up in Columbus, Indiana, a kind of industrial and farmland place."

Stephen Sprouse, American Designer

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"A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend."

Society

"The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn."

Soul

"Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking."

Memory

"If I had a formula for bypassing trouble I wouldn't pass it around. Wouldn't be doing anybody a favour. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say embrace trouble. That's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it."

Resilience

"Rough work iconoclasm but the only way to get at the truth."

Truth

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"It was very clear that this was a very, very old site. There were remains of sod walls. Fishermen assumed it was an old Indian site. Bu Indians didn't use that kind of buildings and houses."

"There isn't a parallel of latitude but thinks it would have been the equator if it had had its rights."

"All the real things in Russia are done in the villages."

"A journey of four hundred and thirty miles can be made in any part of the United States, but in Turkey it takes as many days."

"Up to 80 percent of the fish that we catch spend at least part of their lives in estuaries."

"Estuaries are coastal bays, harbors, sounds and lagoons, places where rivers meet the sea."

"The silver Thames takes some part of this county in its journey to Oxford."

"Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks."

"It was raining in the small, mountainous country of Llamedos. It was always raining in Llamedos. Rain was the country's main export. It had rain mines."

"I grew up in Columbus, Indiana, a kind of industrial and farmland place."

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"A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend."

"The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn."

"Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking."

"Old age is fifteen years older than I am."

"Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust."

"Love prefers twilight to daylight."

"Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it."

"When in doubt, do it."

"Rough work iconoclasm but the only way to get at the truth."