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There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives.

We are all regionalists in our origins, however 'universal' our themes and characters, and without our cherished hometowns and childhood landscapes to nourish us, we would be like plants set in shallow soil. Our souls must take root - almost literally.

Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will.

Where a city is only focused on one aspect, it becomes a city without a soul, not a city people want to live in.

Anybody who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography.

Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life.

Any landscape is a condition of the spirit.

The soul of the world is in the whole world, and is everywhere so adapted to matter that, at each place, it produces the proper subject and causes the proper actions.

If some countries have too much history, we have too much geography.