“I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves”- Alexander von Humboldt

“Geography is essential to all the transactions of the statesman, informing us, as it does, of the position of the continents, seas, and oceans of the whole habitable earth.”- Strabo

“I know that I am mortal by nature, and ephemeral; but when I trace at my pleasure the windings to and fro of the heavenly bodies I no longer touch the earth with my feet: I stand in the presence of Zeus himself and take my fill of ambrosia”- Ptolemy

“In all things of nature there is something of the Marvellous”.- Aristotle

“Geography is concerned to provide accurate, orderly, and rational description and interpretation of the variable character of the Earth surface”.- Richard Hartshorne