Two important characteristics of maps should be noticed. A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness.

- Alfred Korzybski

If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible link between the objective world and the linguistic world is found in structure, and structure alone.

- Alfred Korzybski

In my library/study/barn, there is a Ping-Pong table on which I can pile working books and spread maps.

- Antony Beevor

For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.

- Christopher Columbus

Japanese maps tend to come in two varieties: small, schematic, and bewildering; and large, fantastically detailed, and bewildering.

- Charles C. Mann

Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.

- Eric Bentley

The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

There's just something hypnotic about maps.

- Ken Jennings

Even before you understand them, your brain is drawn to maps.

- Ken Jennings

I have always loved maps.

- Ken Jennings

I would stare at maps of Delaware for hours.

- Ken Jennings

But there are certain books I would never put on a Kindle because you want to be able to look at graphs and photos or the footnotes and maps. You can't see that.

- Lisa See

If geography is prose, maps are iconography.

- Lennart Meri

We're all pilgrims on the same journey - but some pilgrims have better road maps.

- Nelson DeMille

We emphasise the features on satellite maps by adding colours to farmland, urban structures, archaeological sites, vegetation and water.

- Sarah Parcak