Geographical Influences Quotes

I'm a great believer in geography being destiny.

Food is the best way to teach history and geography and most everything else.

The striking differences between the long-term histories of peoples of the different continents have been due not to innate differences in the people themselves but to differences in their environments.

Growing up in a specific area has a certain sociological and economic reason, so I'm interested in using myself as a case study to look as those things.

These small things - nutrition, place, climate, recreation, the whole casuistry of selfishness - are inconceivably more important than everything one has taken to be important so far.

In other words, we are interested in the anatomical and mental characteristics of men living under the same biological, geographical, and social environment, and as determined by their past.

I think the landscape you grow up in probably does mark you in ways you don't even understand.

In the North the first words are, Help me; in the South, Love me.

If our designs for private houses are to be correct, we must at the outset take note of the countries and climates in which they are built.

I was always very aware of the nature of the place where I was growing up in Gulfport, Mississippi, how that place was shaping my experience of the world. I had to go to the Northeast for graduate school because I felt like I had to get far away from my South, be outside it, to understand it.