Maria Montessori

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.

Italian Educator

John Henrik Clarke

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.

American Author

James Howard Kunstler

On top of the insult of destroying the geographic places we call home, the chain stores also destroyed people's place in the order of daily life, including the duties, responsibilities, obligations, and ceremonies that prompt citizens to care for each other.

Jon Huntsman, Jr.

People truly reaching across boundaries - be they religious or race, political or geographic. A state that is sincerely civil and respectful of each individual's pathway toward life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness will be our goal.

American Politician

Hannah Fry

The weather doesn't respect political or geographic boundaries: we're all living under the same sky. And so weather prediction has been a marvel not only of technology but also of international cooeperation.

English Mathematician

Stephanie Laurens

In my works, the geography map-wise is accurate - roads are where I say they are, and go from this town to the next as I say they do, and yes, it would take a curricle that long to travel that distance.

Australian Author

Fatih Birol

Governments have always played an important role in energy investment, but this role has been increasing due to both geography and technology.

Turkish Economist

Jack Dangermond

GIS is waking up the world to the power of geography, this science of integration, and has the framework for creating a better future.

American Businessman

Nick Clooney

Respect and affection for animals, particularly those who share our homes, recognize no geographic borders.

Robert Lepage

I've always had a passion for geography. Even at a very young age.

Canadian Playwright

Often used in education to discuss why people live where they do and how they interact with the environment.

Academic Focus

Understanding geography can reveal cultural practices and historical settlement patterns.

Cultural Implications

Geography explains how environment shapes societies' adaptations, economies, and lifestyles.

Environmental Influence

Refers to unique geographical characteristics of specific places, often including natural resources.

Region-specific

When discussing geography, consider how the climate of an area affects its habitation and usage.

Climate Consideration

Describes how space is used effectively in areas like urban planning, architecture, and interior design.

Space Utilization

Involves the planning of structures or features for optimal function and aesthetics.

Strategic Positioning

 such as determining the geographic origins and lifestyles of ancient peoples based on which of their words were native, and which were borrowed. There are two main problems linguists face when constructing these language family trees. One is that there is no clear way of deciding where the branches at the bottom should end, that is,

How languages evolve -...

 We don't know the geographic movements of individual larva for most species. Nor do we know which exact environmental cues and behaviors they use to navigate to the reefs they will call home. But we do know that these tiny trekkers are more than the fragile and helpless creatures science once believed them to be.

The secret lives of baby...

 yeah we have the most powerful military the world's ever created but these guys are pretty much out there on their own with what they have you know on the base and at their disposal I don't want to gather too much attention to well what I went through and what the National Geographic film crew went through

Inside the Green Berets:...

 It's an outstanding, unbelievable relationship and much of it has to do with the fact that it is one of the largest, most productive coasts along the pacific coast of the New World. Its unbelievable culture, unbelievable country and it's that geographic relationship that we like to explain, helps explain

Fredrik Hiebert:...

 Well here is a fundamental problem we have not our basic political geography. How do we distribute ourselves around the world? Now this is important, because border conflicts justify so much of the world's military-industrial complex. Border conflicts can derail

Parag Khanna maps the...

 By geography, I mean analyzing the world around you. One geographic concept that could really help you out in a zombie apocalypse is movement. So, first, what moves? People move, animals move, and, while sometimes slowly, zombies move as well.

How do you decide where...

 information about our planet studying geography makes you more appreciative of the world as a whole and of being a global citizen I think it's important to understand the world we live in and land masses bodies of water or how they all

GeoBee: Geography PIPE...

 Geographic magazine and occasionally they published these amazing maps of the floor of the ocean there I always imagined what would it be like to visit these places and see what lives there control of the air my depth one eight meters

Pioneering Scientist...

 so far and exploration is is so vital and so important and for me very much so exploration is a physical manifestation of geography and what I'd like to take you through is and what I think geography is and what I call guerrilla

Daniel Raven-Ellison:...

 this brings me to what I've been doing for the last ten years one project is called psycho geographies and I like to think of it as a catalogue of humanity as a composite of infinite interactions