Geographers Quotes:

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

- Ambrose Bierce

source: Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.75, 谷月社

topic: Differences, World, Geographers

As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes in the margin to the effect that beyond this lies nothing but sandy deserts full of wild beasts, and unapproachable bogs.

- Plutarch

source: Parallel Lives "Aemilius Paulus" sec. 5

topic: Lying, Desert, World, Bogs, Geographers

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

topic: Historical, Able, Facts, Geographers, Historical Facts

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

source: Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.16, 谷月社

topic: Funny, Country, Lying, Geographers

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

- Jonathan Swift

topic: Elephants, Savages, Maps, Geographers

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

- Michael Palin

topic: Skills, World, Analysis, Geographers

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

source: John Ralston Saul (2012). “Voltaire's Bastards”, p.476, Simon and Schuster

topic: Thinking, Errors, World, World Is Flat, Geographers

Place is security, space is freedom.

- Yi-Fu Tuan

topic: Space, Security, Geographers

Do you know what constitutes a great poet? He is a person without shame, incapable of blushing. Ordinary fools have moments when they go off by themselves and blush with shame; not so the great poet.... If you really have to quote someone, quote a geographer; that way you won't give yourself away. (p 44)

- Knut Hamsun

source: Knut Hamsun (2011). “Mysteries”, p.33, Souvenir Press

topic: Giving, Way, Fool, Great Poet, Geographers

"What place would you advise me to visit now?" he asked. "The planet Earth," replied the geographer. "It has a good reputation."

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

topic: Nature, Travel, Earth, Geographers, Good Reputation

It might be seen by what tenure men held the earth. The smallest stream is mediterranean sea, a smaller ocean creek within the land, where men may steer by their farm bounds and cottage lights. For my own part, but for the geographers, I should hardly have known how large a portion of our globe is water, my life has chiefly passed within so deep a cove. Yet I have sometimes ventured as far as to the mouth of my Snug Harbor.

- Henry David Thoreau

source: Henry David Thoreau (1873). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.255

topic: Ocean, Men, Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Creeks

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

source: George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.3945, e-artnow

topic: Lakes, Sea, Fishing, Geographers

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

source: Henry David Thoreau (1873). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.406

topic: Knowledge, Thinking, Gone, Geographers

Genius is the naturalist or geographer of the supersensible regions, and draws their map; and, by acquainting us with new fields of activity, cools our affection for the old. These are at once accepted as the reality, of which the world we have conversed with is the show.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Wallace E. Williams, Joseph Slater (1987). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men: seven lectures”, p.10, Harvard University Press

topic: Reality, Genius, World, Geographers, Regions