Richard Hartshorne

"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."

"To be sure, the moment the study passes beyond bare description the student must leave the landscape itself, must go beneath it, even to state what its form represents — to translate the outer foliage…"

"The core study of geography is the study of places, that is the analysis of the significant differences that distinguish the various areas of the world from each other. Among the differences that are …"

"So important, indeed, is the use of maps in geographic work, that, without wishing to propose any new law, it seems fair to suggest to the geographer a ready rule of thumb to test the geographic quali…"

"The border position of geography between the natural and the social sciences is fairly generally recognized. Concerned primarily with differences in the different areas of the world, geography studies…"

"Science is... in the broadest sense of organized, objective knowledge."

"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 se…"

"Of all territorial settlements made at the end of the World War none has been so frequently criticized as that which we call the."