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Geography is that discipline that seeks to describe and interpret the variable character from place to place of the earth as the world of man.
Perspective on the nature of geography (1958)
The primary problem of political geography [is] the analysis of the degree to which the diverse regions of the state constitute a unity.
Hartshorne (1955)
The unique purpose of geography is to seek comprehension of the variable character of areas in terms of all the interrelated features which together form that variable character.
Perspective on the nature of geography (1958)
Geography is concerned to provide accurate, orderly, and rational description and interpretation of the variable character of the earth surface.
Perspective on the nature of geography (1958)
We may once again modify our statement of the purpose of geography to read: the study that seeks to provide scientific description of the earth as the world of man.
Perspective on the nature of geography (1958)
Geography is not an infant subject, born out of the womb of American geology a few decades ago, which each new generation of American students may change around at will.
The Nature of Geography (1939)
Science is... in the broadest sense of organized, objective knowledge.
The Nature of Geography (1939)
Landscape - the external surface of the earth beneath the atmosphere... is merely an outward manifestation of most of the factors at work in the area.
The Nature of Geography (1939)
Of all territorial settlements made at the end of the World War none has been so frequently criticized as that which we call the Polish Corridor.
R. Hartshorne (1937)
Geographers and agricultural economists have become increasingly interested in recent years in studying the associations of crops and livestock in different types of agriculture, in contrast to the separate consideration of individual crops or products.
S.N. Dicken (1935)
Geographers are wont to boast of their subject as a very old one, extending, even as an organized science, far back to antiquity. But often when geographers in this country discuss the nature of their subject, whether in symposia or in published articles, one has the impression that geography was founded by a group of American scholars at the beginning of the twentieth century.
The Nature of Geography (1939)
Problems connected with political boundaries have frequently elicited the interest of geographers. In all countries with chronic or acute boundary problems the geographers are drawn into the general discussion, more or less as experts, and in some cases the professional geographer has actually been called upon to assist in the determination and demarcation of boundaries.
Hartshorne (1933)