I Would Read The Atlas For Pleasure.

We Don't Realize How Hard It Was To Drive Anywhere Outside The Major Cities Less Than A Century Ago.

I Always Bring My Kids Vacation Souvenirs Printed In Comic Sans, So They Know I Love Them But Not Unconditionally.

For Some Reason The Most Devoted Mapheads Seem To Be Kids.

The Thing You Like/are Good At Is A Sacred Thing.

Arthur Jay Klinghoffer, A Professor Of Political Science At Rutgers University, Has Argued That Geography Seems Less Relevant Than Ever In A World Where Nonstate Actors -- Malleable Entities Like Ethnicities, For Example -- Are As Powerful And Important As The Ones With Governments And Borders. Where On A Map Can You Point To Al-qaeda? Or Google, Or Wal-mart? Everywhere And Nowhere.