Robert Adam quotes

“If as individuals we can improve the geography only slightly, if at all, perhaps the more appropriately scaled subject for reshaping is ourselves.”
-- Robert Adam

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“We show wisdom by a decent conformity to social etiquette; it is excess of neatness or display that creates dandyism in men, and coquetry in women.”
-- Robert Adam

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“By Interstate 70: a dog skeleton, a vacuum cleaner, TV dinners, a doll, a pie, rolls of carpet.Later, next to the South Platte River: algae, broken concrete, jet contrails, the smell of crude oil. What I hope to document, though not at the expense of surface detail, is the form that underlies this apparent chaos.”
-- Robert Adam

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“A dialogue among civilizations can be seen as a dialogue between the individual and the universal.”

“The day of individual happiness has passed.”

“No longer were there individual destinies; only a collective destiny, made of plague and emotions shared by all.”

“No social stability without individual stability.”

“Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.”

“All my experiences removed geography from my world.”

“It occurred to me that no matter where I lived, geography could not save me.”

“We have 45,000 square miles of geography in Ohio.”

Source : "Countdown" with Keith Olbermann, www.nbcnews.com. November 29, 2004.

“Experience has shown that the more fascinating the subject, the less observant the photographer.”

Source : Veto message of Chinese Exclusion Act, 1882.

“Dead is when the chemists take over the subject.”

Source : "Arthur Schawlow" by Steven Chu and Charles H. Townes. "Biographical Memoirs", Volume 83, p. 202, www.nap.edu. 2003.