places
The world has too much beauty and adventure for one person to see.
- Elliot Dallen
No horizon is so far that we cannot get above it and beyond it.
- Beryl Markham
Travel is usually a greater source of learning than the page.
- Dan Wang
It is a great error to suppose that people are rendered stupid by remaining always in the same place.
- William Cobbett
The Earth is a generous mother. She will provide in plentiful abundance food for all her children, if they will but cultivate her soil in justice and peace.
- Bourke Cockran
Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization. Wilderness was never a homogeneous raw material. It was very diverse, and the resulting artifacts are very diverse. These differences in the end-product are known as cultures. The rich diversity of the world’s cultures reflect a corresponding diversity in the wilds that gave them birth.
- Aldo Leopold
These regions, which yet form only an immense wilderness, will become one of the richest and most powerful countries in the world. Nothing is missing except civilized man, and he is at the door.
- Alexis de Tocqueville
Mankind progresses from East to West.
- Henry David Thoreau
America is a religion in itself.
- Michael Novak
America is conservative in fundamental principles, but the principles conserved are liberal and sometime radical.
- Gunnar Myrdal
I think that in no country in the civilized world is less attention paid to philosophy than in the United States.
- Alexis De Tocqueville
The United States is a nation of compromises.
- Shelby Foote
The government of the United States is a government of laws, and not of men.
- John Adams
The United States has a long history of failing to preserve civil liberties when it perceived its national security threatened. The country has remorsefully realized the abrogation of civil liberties was unnecessary. But it has proven unable to prevent itself from repeating the error when the next crisis came along.
- William Brennan
There are no second acts in American lives.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Families are always rising and falling in America.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Mississippi has a new story to tell every day.
- Mark Twain
Atlanta was soon lost behind the screen of trees and became a thing of the past. Around it clings many a thought of desperate battle, of hope and fear, that now seems like the memory of a dream.
- William Sherman
I believe that in the future, whoever holds Alaska will hold the world. I think it is the most important strategic place in the world.
- General Billy Mitchell
The Grid of New York is the most courageous act of prediction in Western civilization: the land it divides, unoccupied, the population it describes, conjectural; the buildings it locates, phantoms….
- Rem Koolhaas
One cannot dip a toe into the water of New York politics without sensing, moving somewhere deep beneath the surface, the presence of an enormous force, a power unseen but immense: the power of banks.
- Robert Caro
At what moment, exactly, did the city of Chicago cease to be part of nature? Even to ask the question suggests it’s absurdity.
- William Cronon
The history of Capitalism is the subordination of the country to the town.
- Leon Trotsky
The finest landscape in the world is not worth a damn without a cozy inn in the foreground.
- Samuel Johnson
A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea.
- Benjamin Disraeli
The city is a granite garden, composed of many smaller gardens, set in a garden world.
- Anne Spirn
In cities - where people’s lives are denser, endlessly intertwined, hopelessly snarled tangles of aspirations and antagonisms - hopes and fears and dreams and dreads follow the same.
- Robert Caro
Stadtluft macht frei.
- Medieval German saying
The same logic that causes big rivers always to flow past big cities causes cheap farms sometimes to be marooned by spring floods.
- Aldo Leopold
The warmth of southern sun pervades in subtle ways the northern shades.
- Luís de Camões
Quid est mare? Refugium in periculis.
- Alcuins Catechism
The steepest places have been at all times the asylum of liberty.
- Baron de Tott
Italy is cultivated right up to the mountain tops.
- Guicciardini
Brazil is the country of the future, always will be.
- Charles de Gaulle
In Columbia there are no train schedules, only rumors.
- Wade Davis
Who do I call if I want to call Europe?
- Henry Kissinger
The Frenchman is the ideal soldier, not only can he fight, he can tell you about it.
- Heywood Broun
With time, England will be only London.
- King James 1st
I have been crushed under a sense of the mere magnitude of London - its inconceivable immensity - in such a way as to paralyze my mind for any appreciation of details.
- Henry James
Amsterdam is the inventory of the possible.
- Descartes
History clearly shows that the salt of the earth is gradually shifting eastwards. In the 18th century France was the salt of the earth, in the 19th Germany. Now it is Russia.
- Grigori Sokolnikov
Russians possess the genius of all the peoples and also have our own; thus we can understand you and you cannot understand us.
- Dostoevsky
There are two parties in Russia. One party in office and one in prison.
- Nikolai Bukharin
The middle east’s conflicts overlap like plate tectonics.
- Robert Fisk
India lives in its villages.
- Gandhi
Hindu thought takes a longer route on its way to reach a conclusion and so gathers more richness along the way.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
The Namche Barwa will one day fall into the Tsangpo gorge and block the river, which will then turn aside and flow over the Doshong La.
- Kongbo Tibetan Prophecy
No trading port as large as Malacca is known, nor any where they deal in such fine and highly prized merchandise. Goods from all over the East are found here; goods from all over the West are sold here. It is at the end of the monsoons where you find what you want, and sometimes more than you are looking for.
- Tomé Pires
With God’s help, we will lift Shanghai up and up, ever up until it is just like Kansas City.
- Senator Kenneth Wherry's Prophecy
Leadership in a world economy is an experience of power which may one day blind the victor to the march of history.
- Fernand Braudel
So often in international affairs, hawkish paranoia can create the monster that is most feared.
- William Dalrymple
All the power of the United States will not stem the tides of Asia, but all the wisdom of which we are capable might conceivably make those tides a little more friendly to us than they are now.
- John Melby