Quotes Tagged With :cartography

To lovers of adventure and novelty, Africa displays a most ample field.

To put a city in a book, to put the world on one sheet of paper -- maps are the most condensed humanized....

The virtue of maps, they show what can be done with limited space, they foresee that everything can happen....

. . . In that Empire, the Art of Cartography attained such Perfection that the map of a single Province....

When someone doesn't show up, the people who wait sometimes tell stories about what might have happened....

Maps codify the miracle of existence.