“Geography is destiny.”

— Abraham Verghese, book Cutting for Stone

Source: Cutting for Stone

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Physician, teacher, novelist 1955

Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875–1956) British writer

Clerihews: Biography for Beginners (1905)

“Internet use is diffusing fast, but this diffusion follows a spatial pattern that fragments its geography according to wealth, technology, and power: it is the new geography of development.”

Manuel Castells (1942) Spanish sociologist (b.1942)

Source: The Internet Galaxy - Reflections on the Internet, Business, and Society (2001), Chapter 8, The Geography of the Internet, p. 212

“Do you understand the sadness of geography?”

Michael Ondaatje book The English Patient

Source: The English Patient

“One cannot kick against geography!”

Eleftherios Venizelos (1864–1936) Greek politician

Source: Victory of Venizelos, 1920, p. 31 ; Part of Venizelos' arguments with king Constantine why Greece should join with the Allies in the World War I.

“War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.”

Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914) American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist

"War Is God's Way of Teaching Us Geography" https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/05/19/geography/ at Quote Investigator <br class="br">"The comment 'War is God's way of teaching Americans geography,' is continually attributed to Ambrose Bierce. Biographer David E. Schultz, who has nearly all of Bierce's writing entered on his computer, cannot find this acerbic remark within that database." Ralph Keyes, The Quote Verifier (2007), p. 240 <br class="br">Misattributed

“The present Dominion emerged not in spite of geography but because of it.”

Harold Innis (1894–1952) Canadian professor of political economy

Conclusion, p. 393.
The Fur Trade in Canada (1930)
Context: Canada emerged as a political entity with boundaries largely determined by the fur trade. These boundaries included a vast north temperate land area extending from the Atlantic to the Pacific and dominated by the Canadian Shield. The present Dominion emerged not in spite of geography but because of it.