Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates.
Canada is divided by great mountains, great prairies, Great Lakes, and eleven governments that really grate.
No man is an island, but some of us are long peninsulas.
We have the most beautiful planet - the Rockies, the purple fields of the United States, the Lake District, the Pyrenees, the turquoise seas of the tropics.
Where lowland is, that's where water goes. All medicine wants is pain to cure.
On and on they flew, over the countryside parceled out in patches of green and brown, over roads and rivers winding through the landscapes like strips of matte and glossy ribbon.
Mountains should not be judged by altitude.
I'm often stunned when I come up over Mulholland, and I'm looking down at the Valley, and I can see for thirty miles; I can see the mountains, or all the way to the ocean.
My ties and ballasts leave me - I travel - I sail - My elbows rest in the sea-gaps. I skirt the sierras. My palms cover continents - I am afoot with my vision.
I have always had a love for American geography, and especially for the landscapes of the South. One of my pleasures has been to drive across it, with no one in the world knowing where I am, languidly absorbing the thoughts and memories of old moments, of people vanished now from my life.
On my passage thither, I discovered nothing remarkable in the features of the country.
No man is an island; but some are peninsulas.
We have 45,000 square miles of geography in Ohio.
Switzerland would me a mighty big place if it were ironed flat.
Rule one: Write about settings you're familiar with.
Kilimanjaro is a snow-covered mountain 19,710 feet high, and is said to be the highest mountain in Africa. Its western summit is called the Masai 'Ngaje Ngai', the House of God. Close to the western summit there is a dried and frozen carcas of a leopard. No one has explained what the leopard was seeking at that altitude.
Rivers and mountains are beautiful and made heroes bow and compete to catch the girl- lovely earth. Yet the emperors Shih Huang and Wu Ti were barely able to write. The first emperors of the Tang and Sung dynasties were crude. Genghis Khan, man of his epoch and favored by heaven, knew only how to hunt the great eagle. They are all gone. Only today are we men of feeling.
The Vermont mountains stretch extended straight; New Hampshire mountains curl up in a coil.
I'm interested in geography and weather and things like that, and if you don't write love songs, you've gotta go somewhere. I wrote a lot about places because that's what else there was. I had to stop myself from writing more of them.
This broken country extends back from the river for many miles and has been called always be Indian, French voyager and American trappers alike, the Bad Lands.
When I was in the fourth grade, I became intensely interested in geography and I learned it well.
I like geography best, he said, because your mountains & rivers know the secret. Pay no attention to boundaries.
I've always had a passion for geography. Even at a very young age.
An island is a fixed and finite piece of geography, and usually the whole place has been carved up and claimed.
It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them.
