Definition of Geography

Geography

The science which treats of the world and its inhabitants; a description of the earth, or a portion of the earth, including its structure, fetures, products, political divisions, and the people by whom it is inhabited.

A treatise on this science.

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Geography Quotations

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

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

To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayana

Several technological and political forces have converged, and that has produced a global, Web-enabled playing field that allows for multiple forms of collaboration without regard to geography or distance - or soon, even language.
Thomas Friedman

Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you because geography books no longer exist.
Moshe Dayan

When Brian told me he grew up in New Mexico, I told him I thought it is cool that people from other countries play football. He corrected me on my geography and agreed to sit down with me anyway.
Terry Bradshaw

I like geography. I like to know where places are.
Tom Felton

Anybody who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography.
Robert Byrne

Children can take lessons in that school via the Internet and can score extra points like e.g. in Geography or History. That sounds very promising and is a fantastic basis for future steps.
Anatoly Karpov

Everything has to do with geography.
Judy Martz

In particular, Australia, because of its ancient geography, soil profile and distinctive weather patterns, is more adversely affected by climate variability than some other continents.
Peter Garrett

If some countries have too much history, we have too much geography.
Mackenzie King

When I was in the fourth grade, I became intensely interested in geography and I learned it well.
Clyde Tombaugh

As a state we are so uniquely positioned in so many ways. Our geography, our placement in the country, and our history positions us to be the state that propels energy efficiency as an industry.
Jennifer Granholm

Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic.
John James Audubon

If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace.
Ludwig von Mises

I was a daydreamer, and there is a lot of history and geography and science I missed out on because I was in my head. And I regret that.
Gillian Anderson

I believe very strongly, and have fought since many years ago - at least over 30 years ago - to get architecture not just within schools, but architecture talked about under history, geography, science, technology, art.
Richard Rogers

The door might not be opened to a woman again for a long, long time, and I had a kind of duty to other women to walk in and sit down on the chair that was offered, and so establish the right of others long hence and far distant in geography to sit in the high seats.
Frances Perkins

Coming out involves varying degrees of difficulty that are affected by class, race, religion, and geography.
Lance Loud

The philosophy of the school was quite simple - the bright boys specialised in Latin, the not so bright in science and the rest managed with geography or the like.
Aaron Klug

I'm somewhat horrified because I don't think the young people today even know what history is. Some of them don't' even study History at school anymore or Geography and they don't know where one place is from another.
Joan Sutherland

You want a lesson? I'll give you a lesson. How about a geography lesson? My father's from Puerto Rico. My mother's from El Salvador. And neither one of those is Mexico.
Jennifer Esposito

I like a certain grandeur to a landscape, which both the Arctic and coastal BC have. I like it to be at all times clear that people aren't the dominant fact of a particular geography.
Kevin Patterson

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

An hour or two spent in writing from dictation, another hour or two in reading aloud, a little geography and a little history and a little physics made the day pass busily.
Hudson Stuck

Geography has no bearing on it, nor have the interests of the community in which I work.
Yves Tanguy

If geography is prose, maps are iconography.
Lennart Meri

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

We have 45,000 square miles of geography in Ohio.
Kenneth Blackwell

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Geography Translations

geography in Danish is geografi
geography in Dutch is aardrijkskunde, geografie
geography in Finnish is maantiede
geography in German is Erdkunde
geography in Norwegian is geografi
geography in Portuguese is geografia
geography in Swedish is geografi

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