IMPORTANT QUOTATIONS IN GEOGRAPHY FOR NTA UGC NET
- ‘Geography is concerned to provide accurate, orderly and rational description and interpretation of the variable character of the earth surface’ – Richard Hartshorne
- ‘Man is the product of the earth’s surface’ – Ellen Semple
- ‘Man is a geographical agent and not the least’ – Lucien Febvre
- ‘There are no necessities but everywhere possibilities’ – Lucien Febvre
- ‘Mutually coordinated and not subordinated in space’ – Hettner
- Climatic influences are persistent, often obdurate in their control – Semple
- Routes through which people have migrated have impressed upon their social characteristics – Edmond Demolins
- Supreme achievements of civilization were bounded by climate – Huntington
- Everywhere man contributes in inverting the physiognomy of earth – Brunhes
- Geography is the mirror and reveals essence of human existence and striving – Yi Fu Tuan
- Humanism is a conviction that men and women can best improve their lives by thinking and acting for themselves and especially their capacity for reason. – Raph
- We should Study the earth as if we were sitting in a ballon and looking down upon it. – Jean Brunhes