Up: [[Journeys]] > [!Orbit] Jon Krakauer > There are no blank spots on the map anymore, anywhere on earth. If you want a blank spot on the map, you gotta leave the map behind. > [!Orbit] Peter Greenaway > A map tells you where you've been, where are you, and where you're going -- in a sense it's three tenses in one. > [!Orbit] [[Rebecca Solnit]] in *Wanderlust: A history of walking* > A labyrinth is a symbolic journey...but it is a map we can really walk on, blurring the difference between map and world. > [!Orbit] Reif Larsen in *The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet* > A map does not just chart, it unlocks and formulates meaning; it forms bridges between here and there, between disparate ideas that we did not know were previously connected. > [!Orbit] Amie Kaufman in *Unearthed* > When we allow ourselves to explore, we discover destinations that were never on our map. > [!Orbit] David Mitchell in *The Bone Clocks* > It is the edges of the maps that fascinate. > [!Orbit] Mark Jenkins > Maps encourage boldness. They're like cryptic love letters. They make anything seem possible. > [!Orbit] Miles Harvey in *The Island of Lost Maps: A true story of cartographic crime* > A map has no vocabulary, no lexicon of precise meanings. It communicates in lines, hues, tones, coded symbols, and empty spaces, much like music. Nor does a map have its own voice. it is many-tongued, a chorus reciting centuries of accumulated knowledge in echoed chants. A map provides no answers. It only suggests where to look: Discover this, reexamine that, put one thing in relation to another, orient yourself, begin here… Sometimes a map speaks in terms of physical geography, but just as often it muses on the jagged terrain of the heart, the distant vistas of memory, or the fantastic landscapes of dreams. > [!Orbit] Gina Greenlee in *Postcards and Pearls: Life lessons from solo moments on the road* > When a thing beckons you to explore it without telling you why or how, this is not a red herring; it's a map. > [!Orbit] Harley and Woodward in *History of Cartography* > Maps are graphic representations that facilitate a spatial understanding of things, concepts, conditions, processes, or events in the human world.