Geo-flavored loading messages that I set up in our CartoDB Slack account. If you have suggestions, please send them in!
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Geographers never get lost. They just do accidental field work.
by Nicholas Chrisman. -
Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it.
by Terry Pratchett in The Last Continent. -
Not all those who wander are lost.
a line from the poem All that is gold does not glitter, by J. R. R. Tolkien for The Lord of the Rings. -
In that Empire, the Art of Cartography attained such Perfection that the map of a single Province occupied the entirety of a City.
from "Del rigor en la ciencia" by Jorge Luis Borges. -
"X" marks the spot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTsPt_8Q4jU -
It's turtles all the way down.
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Remember: no matter where you go, there you are.
http://www.figmentfly.com/bb/popculture4.html -
Without geography, you're nowhere!
by Jimmy Buffett -
our earth is a globe / whose surface we probe / no map can replace her/ but just try to trace her
by Steve Waterman -
Everything happens somewhere.
by Doctor Who -
A map is the greatest of all epic poems. Its lines and colors show the realization of great dreams.
by Gilbert H. Grosvenor -
Everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things.
Tobler's first law of geography -
Hic Sunt Dracones
Here be dragons -
Stand in the place where you live / Now face North / Think about direction / Wonder why you haven't beforefrom Stand, by R.E.M -
Look to the future & leave the past behind
by @xavijam