“So geographers, in Africa maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er uninhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns” WantTownsMapsGapsSavagesElephantsGeographers Author:Jonathan Swift
“The sight of stars always sets me dreaming just as naively as those black dots on a map set me dreaming of towns and villages. Why should these points of light in the firmament, I wonder, be less accessible than the dark ones on the map of France? We take a train to go to Torascon or Roven and we take death to a star.” ShouldDreamLightStarsBlackDarkWonderSightTownsTrainFranceMapsVillageDotsFirmamentPoints Of Light Author:Vincent Van Gogh
“I was extremely frustrated, almost at the point of giving up on coming up with a name for the project (because I'm awful at it), when I decided to play the 'put a pen somewhere on a map with your eyes closed' game with South Africa. About the 5th try was St. Lucia in South Africa, which coincidentally also happens to be an idyllic sub-tropical seaside resort town. The name seemed to fit with the mood of the music, and so after a while it just stuck.” GivingTryingPlayHappensEyeGamesNamesFitGiving UpProjectsDecidedTownsSouthStuckMoodAwfulMapsPensSouth AfricaFrustratedResortsTropicalIdyllic Author:St. Lucia
“...to look at the stars always makes me dream, as simply as I dream over the black dots of a map representing towns and villages. Why, I ask myself, should the shining dots of the sky not be as accessible as the black dots on the map of France?” ShouldLooksDreamAsksStarsBlackSkyFutureTownsShiningFranceMapsVillageRepresentingDots Book:The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh Source: The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh
“Home wasn't a set house, or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people who loved you were, whenever you were together. Not a place, but a moment, and then another, building on each other like bricks to create a solid shelter that you take with you for your entire life, wherever you may go.” PeopleMayMomentsHomeTogetherHouseBuildingTownsMapsShelterBricks Author:Sarah Dessen
“Home wasn't a set house, or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people who loved you were, whenever you were together.” PeopleHomeTogetherHouseTownsMaps Author:Sarah Dessen
“Because it's kind of great, being an idea that everybody likes. But I could never be the idea to myself, not all the way. And Agloe is a place where a paper creation became real. A dot on the map became a real place, more real than the people who created the dot could never have imagined. I thought maybe the paper cutout of a girl could start becoming real here also. And it seemed like a way to tell that paper girl who cared about popularity and clothes and everything else: 'You are going to the paper towns. And you are never coming back.” PeopleWayKindIdeasRealGirlCreationBecomingPaperClothesTownsLikesMapsPopularityComing BackDotsBecoming Real Author:John Green
“What is it about maps? I could look at them all day, earnestly studying the names of towns and villages I have never heard of and will never visit.” LooksNamesStudyHeardTravelTownsMapsVillage Book:Neither here nor there: travels in Europe Source: Neither here nor there: travels in Europe
“The vast majority of local people will neither know all of the initiatives nor have any perception that the individual elements are beginning to contribute to making their home town more environmentally sustainable. It is even less likely that visitors will gain any picture of what is being achieved. It is to solve this problem that the Green Map System has been developed.” PeopleKnowsHas BeensProblemHomeIndividualElementsPerceptionGainsTownsGreenMajoritySolveLocalsMapsInitiativeVisitorsHome Town Author:Paul Burrell