Maps Quotes
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![Cormac McCarthy](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1611995562i/4178._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery.”
― The Road
― The Road
![Terry Pratchett](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1235562205i/1654._UX200_CR0,38,200,200_.jpg)
“You can't map a sense of humor. Anyway, what is a fantasy map but a space beyond which There Be Dragons? On the Discworld we know that There Be Dragons Everywhere. They might not all have scales and forked tongues, but they Be Here all right, grinning and jostling and trying to sell you souvenirs. ”
― The Color of Magic
― The Color of Magic
![Gilles Deleuze](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1615583539i/13009._UX200_CR0,22,200,200_.jpg)
“Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come.”
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“Men read maps better than women because only men can understand the concept of an inch equaling a hundred miles.”
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![Ilona Andrews](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1588103544i/21748._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“He lunged for the maps. I grabbed the chair and hit him with it. He went down. I hit him again to make sure he stayed that way, stepped over him, and picked up the maps.
"I win.”
― Magic Burns
"I win.”
― Magic Burns
![Alexander McCall Smith](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1272995820i/4738._UX200_CR0,22,200,200_.jpg)
“Regular maps have few surprises: their contour lines reveal where the Andes are, and are reasonably clear. More precious, though, are the unpublished maps we make ourselves, of our city, our place, our daily world, our life; those maps of our private world we use every day; here I was happy, in that place I left my coat behind after a party, that is where I met my love; I cried there once, I was heartsore; but felt better round the corner once I saw the hills of Fife across the Forth, things of that sort, our personal memories, that make the private tapestry of our lives.”
― Love Over Scotland
― Love Over Scotland
![Rebecca Solnit](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1535567225i/15811._UY200_CR43,0,200,200_.jpg)
“A labyrinth is a symbolic journey . . . but it is a map we can really walk on, blurring the difference between map and world.”
― Wanderlust: A History of Walking
― Wanderlust: A History of Walking
![Michael Ondaatje](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1390116915i/4030._UX200_CR0,1,200,200_.jpg)
“I believe in such cartography – to be marked by nature, not just label ourselves on a map like the names of rich men and women on buildings. We are communal histories, communal books. ... All I desired was to walk upon such an earth that had no maps.”
― The English Patient
― The English Patient
![Zeyn Joukhadar](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1693249913i/16090210._UX200_CR0,35,200,200_.jpg)
“The most important places on a map are the places we haven't been yet”
― The Map of Salt and Stars
― The Map of Salt and Stars
![Gerald Durrell](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1344479172i/26957._UY200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“They were maps that lived, maps that one could study, frown over, and add to; maps, in short, that really meant something.”
― My Family and Other Animals
― My Family and Other Animals
![Abdulrazak Gurnah](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1508515502i/44089._UY200_CR50,0,200,200_.jpg)
“I speak to maps. And sometimes they something back to me. This is not as strange as it sounds, nor is it an unheard of thing. Before maps, the world was limitless. It was maps that gave it shape and made it seem like territory, like something that could be possessed, not just laid waste and plundered. Maps made places on the edges of the imagination seem graspable and placable.”
― By the Sea
― By the Sea
![Reif Larsen](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1523975632i/2685732._UY200_CR15,0,200,200_.jpg)
“A map does not just chart, it unlocks and formulates meaning; it forms bridges between here and there, between disparate ideas that we did not know were previously connected.”
― The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet
― The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet
![Robert Harbison](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1704986293i/218029._UY200_CR31,0,200,200_.jpg)
“To put a city in a book, to put the world on one sheet of paper -- maps are the most condensed humanized spaces of all...They make the landscape fit indoors, make us masters of sights we can't see and spaces we can't cover.”
― Eccentric Spaces
― Eccentric Spaces
![Jonathan Safran Foer](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1466172069i/2617._UY200_CR50,0,200,200_.jpg)
“A map such as that one is worth many hundreds, and as luck will have it, thousands of dollars. But more than this, it is a remembrance of that time before our planet was so small. When this map was made, I thought, you could live without knowing where you were not living.”
― Everything is Illuminated
― Everything is Illuminated
![Terry Pratchett](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1235562205i/1654._UX200_CR0,38,200,200_.jpg)
“Map-making had never been a precise art on the Discworld. People tended to start off with good intentions and then get so carried away with the spouting whales, monsters, waves and other twiddly bits of cartographic furniture that the often forgot to put the boring mountains and rivers in at all.”
― Moving Pictures
― Moving Pictures
![Gideon Defoe](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1345407428i/83082._UY200_CR43,0,200,200_.jpg)
“That explains a lot,' he said. 'I suppose it's also why we've never glimpsed that giant compass in the corner of the Atlantic. I have to say, I'm a little disappointed.”
― The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists
― The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists
![Debbie Lee Wesselmann](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1369496940i/60912._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“Through our maps, we willingly become a part of their boundaries. If our home is included, we feel pride, perhaps familiarity, but always a sense that this is ours. If it is not, we accept our roles as outsiders, though we may be of the same mind and culture. In this way, maps can be dangerous and powerful tools.”
― Trutor & The Balloonist
― Trutor & The Balloonist
![Shawn Klomparens](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1224803295i/1362709._UY200_CR50,0,200,200_.jpg)
“He comes down next to me, and when I hold out my hand, he takes it. Our fingers lace together. And in that feeling, that perfect feeling of our hands and fingers pressed together, I want to tell him everything. I want to tell him about Josh, and his sister, Emily. I want to tell him about tall, crazy Gert. I want to tell him about bridges and funerals, and most of all, maps. More than anything else, I want to tell him about myself. I want to tell him that I know what things look like from above now. There's so much I want to tell him, because I know he'll understand.”
― Jessica Z.
― Jessica Z.
![Jenn Bennett](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1465419675i/4485813._UY200_CR26,0,200,200_.jpg)
“For our one-month anniversary, he made me a picture map.
A map of us.
It’s years in the making, and it’s messy and convoluted, some of it even tragic. But I wouldn’t change the route, because we walked it together, even when we were apart. And the best part about it is that it’s unfinished.
Uncertainty isn’t always a bad thing. Sometimes it can even be filled with extraordinary potential.”
― Starry Eyes
A map of us.
It’s years in the making, and it’s messy and convoluted, some of it even tragic. But I wouldn’t change the route, because we walked it together, even when we were apart. And the best part about it is that it’s unfinished.
Uncertainty isn’t always a bad thing. Sometimes it can even be filled with extraordinary potential.”
― Starry Eyes
![Terry Pratchett](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1235562205i/1654._UX200_CR0,38,200,200_.jpg)
“It was a shack, somewhere out on the outskirts of the Plains town of Scrote. Scrote had a lot of outskirts, spread so widely-a busted cart here, a dead dog there-that often people went through it without even knowing it was there, and really it only appeared on the maps because cartographers get embarrassed about big empty spaces.”
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![Christophe Galfard](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1366219506i/548165._UX200_CR0,49,200,200_.jpg)
“Even today, more than eighty years after Oort's bold guess, we still don't have a clue what this dark matter is made of. We know it exists. We know where it is. We have maps of its presence within and around galaxies throughout the universe. We even have stringent constraints on what it is not, but we have no clue what it is. And yes, its presence is overwhelming: for every one kilogram of ordinary matter made out of neutrons and protons and electrons, there are five kilograms of dark matter, made out of who-knows-what.”
― The Universe in Your Hand: A Journey Through Space, Time, and Beyond
― The Universe in Your Hand: A Journey Through Space, Time, and Beyond
![Beryl Markham](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1254274132i/1054._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“It seemed that the printers of the African maps had a slightly malicious habit of including, in large letters, the names of towns, junctions, and villages which, while most of them did exist in fact, as a group of thatched huts may exist or a water hole, they were usually so inconsequential as completely to escape discovery from the cockpit.”
― West with the Night
― West with the Night
![Beryl Markham](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1254274132i/1054._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“It was ... disconcerting to examine your charts before a proposed flight only to find that in many cases the bulk of the terrain over which you had to fly was bluntly marked: 'UNSURVEYED.'
It was as if the mapmakers had said, 'We are aware that between this spot and that one, there are several hundred thousands of acres, but until you make a forced landing there, we won't know whether it is mud, desert, or jungle -- and the chances are we won't know then!”
― West with the Night
It was as if the mapmakers had said, 'We are aware that between this spot and that one, there are several hundred thousands of acres, but until you make a forced landing there, we won't know whether it is mud, desert, or jungle -- and the chances are we won't know then!”
― West with the Night
![Hali Felt](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1344528601i/5226329._UY200_CR3,0,200,200_.jpg)
“On the geological calendar, all of recorded history takes place during the last four seconds of New Year's Eve. 12:59:56, 12:59:57, 12:59:58, 12:59:59. When scaled down, everything humans know about anything, everything we love, everything we've made - condensed into four seconds. We come and go in the amount of time it takes to uncap a bottle of water and take a sip, sign on the dotted line, or fasten a seat belt.”
― Soundings: The Story of the Remarkable Woman Who Mapped the Ocean Floor
― Soundings: The Story of the Remarkable Woman Who Mapped the Ocean Floor
![Jeff Biggers](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1523978743i/59521._UY200_CR31,0,200,200_.jpg)
“One map, titled “Mediterranean without Borders,” by French cartographer Sabine Réthoré, turns our view ninety degrees to the right, the “west” facing up—imagine North Africa to the left and Europe into Turkey to the right with equal stature, the Levant stretching to Egypt at the bottom, and the Rock of Gibraltar at top. Our perspective shifts, the Mediterranean Sea unfolding almost like a lake, the shores mirroring each other along these ancient corridors dotted by islands and waterways. It’s a busy thoroughfare. The Mediterranean is “probably the most vigorous place of interaction,” as eminent historian David Abulafia observed, “between different societies on the face of this planet.”
There in the upper reaches, the island of Sardinia sits in the middle, a focal point of entry and inspection. Instead of being on the periphery of empires or a nebulous island west of the Italian mainland, Sardinia is central to the Mediterranean story and a nexus for navigators heading in any direction. The idea of isolation, as one medieval historian would note, no longer appears “tenable.”
― In Sardinia: An Unexpected Journey in Italy
There in the upper reaches, the island of Sardinia sits in the middle, a focal point of entry and inspection. Instead of being on the periphery of empires or a nebulous island west of the Italian mainland, Sardinia is central to the Mediterranean story and a nexus for navigators heading in any direction. The idea of isolation, as one medieval historian would note, no longer appears “tenable.”
― In Sardinia: An Unexpected Journey in Italy
![Jeff Biggers](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1523978743i/59521._UY200_CR31,0,200,200_.jpg)
“The second map is of Sardinia itself: the main island with its many islets. It is not a floating green mountain with a defining valley that splices along the south by southwest, as a topographical map would show. Instead, this map is as colorful as a neon strip of nightlife you might download on a cell phone for the latest cultural events. In fact, devised as a geoportal and online app by a volunteer organization called Nurnet in 2013, the map pinpoints the thousands of Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments across the islands with the fanfare of an open museum.
As part of Nurnet’s mission to “promote a different image of Sardinia in the world,” the map is nothing less than astounding. If you actually illuminated all of these ancient monuments, from the Neolithic array of Stonehenge-like dolmens and menhir stone formations to the thousands of burial tombs, Bronze Age towers and complexes called nuraghes or nuraghi, the entire island would light up like a prehistoric hotspot. The vastness of the uninterrupted cycles of civilizations and their architectural marvels still standing today would be incomparable with any place in Europe on that first Mediterranean map.
The Sardinians call it the “endless museum.”
― In Sardinia: An Unexpected Journey in Italy
As part of Nurnet’s mission to “promote a different image of Sardinia in the world,” the map is nothing less than astounding. If you actually illuminated all of these ancient monuments, from the Neolithic array of Stonehenge-like dolmens and menhir stone formations to the thousands of burial tombs, Bronze Age towers and complexes called nuraghes or nuraghi, the entire island would light up like a prehistoric hotspot. The vastness of the uninterrupted cycles of civilizations and their architectural marvels still standing today would be incomparable with any place in Europe on that first Mediterranean map.
The Sardinians call it the “endless museum.”
― In Sardinia: An Unexpected Journey in Italy
![Abdulrazak Gurnah](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1508515502i/44089._UY200_CR50,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Suelo hablarles a los mapas, y a veces hasta contestan. Es menos extraño de lo que parece, y tampoco soy el primer en hacerlo. Antes de que hubiera mapas el mundo no tenía límites, fueron ellos los que lo moldearon y le dieron el aspecto de un territorio, de algo que se podía no sólo arrasar y saquear, sino también poseer. Los mapas volvieron alcanzables, y hasta domesticables, lugares que se hallaban en el límite de lo imaginable, y luego, cuando se hizo necesario, la geografía se transformó en biología para construir un orden jerárquico en el que situar a quienes vivían, aislados y primitivos, en otros lugares del mapa.”
― By the Sea
― By the Sea
![J.R.R. Tolkien](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1648968349i/656983._UX200_CR0,44,200,200_.jpg)
“Frodo began to feel restless, and the old paths seemed too well-trodden. He looked at maps, and wondered what lay beyond their edges: maps made in the Shire showed mostly white spaces beyond its borders. He took to wandering further afield and more often by himself”
― The Lord of the Rings
― The Lord of the Rings
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