Topography Quotes

• The placing of the centre pawns determines the "topography" of a game of chess.

  

  Alexander Kotov
  • Chess
  • Pawns
  • Topography

• Each place its own mind, its own psyche! Oak, Madrone, Douglas fir, red-tailed hawk, serpentine in the sandstone, a certain scale to the topography, drenching rains in the winters, fog off-shore in the summers, salmon surging up the streams - all these together make up a particular state of mind, a place-specific intelligence shared by all the humans that dwell therein, but also by the coyotes yapping in those valleys, by the bobcats and the ferns and the spiders, by all beings who live and make their way in that zone. Each place its own psyche. Each sky its own blue.

  

  David Abram
  • Together
  • Summer
  • Rain

• We could not, for example, arrive at a principle like that of entropy without introducing some additional principle, such as randomness, to this topography.

  

  Michael Polanyi
  • Principles
  • Introducing
  • Randomness

• For bighorns, topography is memory, enhanced by acute vision. They can anticipate the land's every contour--when to leap, where to climb, when to turn, which footholds will support their muscular bodies. To survive, this is what the band would have to do: make this perfect match of flesh to earth.

  

  Ellen Meloy
  • Band
  • Memory
  • Survive