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Geography Quotes
"Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps."
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"Dr. David Livingstone left the Island of Zanzibar in March, 1866."
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"Up to 80 percent of the fish that we catch spend at least part of their lives in estuaries."
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"Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here."
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"Manhattan is a narrow island off the coast of New Jersey devoted to the pursuit of lunch."
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"All the real things in Russia are done in the villages."
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"An insuperable obstacle to rapid transit in Africa is the want of carriers, and as speed was the main object of the Expedition under my command, my duty was to lessen this difficulty as much as possible."
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"I grew up in Columbus, Indiana, a kind of industrial and farmland place."
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"In America the most widespread type of forest is the evergreen coniferous woodland of the north."
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"Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression."
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"The States which form the northern border of the United States westward from the Great Lakes to the Pacific coast include an area several times larger than France and could contain ten Englands and still have room to spare."
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"Again and again, to be sure, on the way to America, and under many other circumstances, man has passed through the most adverse climates and has survived, but he has flourished and waxed strong only in certain zones."
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"We have 45,000 square miles of geography in Ohio."
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"Spring has many American faces. There are cities where it will come and go in a day and counties where it hangs around and never quite gets there. Summer is drawn blinds in Louisiana, long winds in Wyoming, shade of elms and maples in New England."
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"Oh, the ignorance of us upon whom Providence did not sufficiently smile to permit us to be born in New England."
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"How can the mind take hold of such a country? Generations of invaders have tried, but they remain in exile. The important towns they build are only retreats, their quarrels the malaise of men who cannot find their way home. India knows of their trouble. She knows of the whole world's trouble, to its uttermost depth. She calls "Come" through her hundred mouths, through objects ridiculous and august. But come to what? She has never defined. She is not a promise, only an appeal."
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"Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks."
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"A few hours' ride brought us to the banks of the river Kansas."
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"Estuaries are coastal bays, harbors, sounds and lagoons, places where rivers meet the sea."
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"When I was in the fourth grade, I became intensely interested in geography and I learned it well."
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"There isn't a parallel of latitude but thinks it would have been the equator if it had had its rights."
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"The silver Thames takes some part of this county in its journey to Oxford."
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"The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town or city."
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