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A science that deals with the description, distribution, and interaction of the diverse physical, biological, and cultural features of the earth's surface




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History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day. It is a compass they use to find themselves on the map of human geography. It tells them where they are but, more importantly, what they must be. - John Henrik Clarke

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

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder. - John F. Kennedy

Sometimes I think war is God's way of teaching us geography. - Paul Rodriguez

Scotland and England may sometimes be rivals, but by geography, we are also neighbours. By history, allies. By economics, partners. And by fate and fortune, comrades, friends and family. - Douglas Alexander

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography. - Ambrose Bierce

Our world is evolving without consideration, and the result is a loss of biodiversity, energy issues, congestion in cities. But geography, if used correctly, can be used to redesign sustainable and more livable cities. - Jack Dangermond

Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on. The teacher, in short, can use reading to introduce her pupils to the most varied subjects; and the moment they have been thus started, they can go on to any limit guided by the single passion for reading. - Maria Montessori

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