"Geography teaches an appreciation and
understanding of the landscape around us and of those landscapes beyond our personal experience. It teaches both a knowledge and a sense of place, the basic knowledge of the theatre
of the world on which mankind acts out its days. It teaches the dimensions of reality and, far
more important, the concerns which underlie the character and the quality of our continuing
existence. It is a subject, above all, of both head and heart. With rigour and precision of
technique and concept we seek to measure, to describe and understand the mechanisms which
dictate the shifting patterns of the occupance of earth. But earth is home, shot through with
beauty and with squalor, opportunity and despair. We cannot be detached from home: our
attempted understanding of its face is quickened by our wonder in its delights and our concern
for its condition: in wonder and in concern, as much as in understanding, is the mark of
relevance in geography."
J Allan Patmore
Patmore, J. (1980). Geography and Relevance. Geography, 65(4), 265-283. Retrieved August 26, 2020, from http://www.jstor.org/stable/40570301
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