Christopher Columbus Quotes

Cartography and geographic thinking are cool.

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

I could not have told where those damned islands were within 2,000 miles.

The earliest maps were 'story' maps. Cartographers were artists who mingled knowledge with supposition, memory and fears. Their maps described both landscape and the events, which had taken place within it, enabling travellers to plot a route as well as to experience a story.

I've always been fascinated by maps and cartography. A map tells you where you've been, where you are, and where you're going -- in a sense it's three tenses in one.

I have always preferred maps to books. They don't answer you back.

I have all the world around me. My walls are 180 East Longitude and 90 North and 90 South Latitude.... Adventure is my guidon.

If geography is prose, maps are iconography.

I would stare at maps of Delaware for hours.

Even before you understand them, your brain is drawn to maps.

We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface.

There's just something hypnotic about maps.

I like geography. I like to know where places are.

Japanese maps tend to come in two varieties: small, schematic, and bewildering; and large, fantastically detailed, and bewildering.

Everything has to do with geography.

I had the Big Horn river explored from Wind River mountain to my place of embarkation.

The ocean is the last frontier of human empirical knowledge; even the contours on that eighth-grader's globe are the product of a mix of scientific measurement, inference and conjecture.

As, however, the port in reality lies in thirty-two degrees thirty-four minutes, according to the observations that have been made, they went much beyond it, thus making the voyage much longer than was necessary.

For some reason the most devoted mapheads seem to be kids.

There was a time when a man was so convinced that the world was round that he was determined to prove it.

I would read the atlas for pleasure. I knew it was weird. It was weird.

Some persons were to be sent in search of the river Missouri in order to discover whether it had any communication with the Pacific Ocean …

Anaximander the Milesian, a disciple of Thales, first dared to draw the inhabited world on a tablet; after him Hecataeus the Milesian, a much-travelled man, made the map more accurate, so that it became a source of wonder.

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

Mapping, both literal and metaphorical, has always been about our quest for knowing.