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“Geography explains the past, illuminates the present and prepares us for the future. What could be more important than that?” Michael Palin

Published on Aug 18, 2016

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“Geography explains the past, illuminates the present and prepares us for the future. What could be more important than that?”
Michael Palin

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"What is knowledge worth if we know nothing about the world that sustains us nothing about natural systems and climate, nothing about other countries and cultures?"

Jonathon Porritt

As a young man, my fondest dream was to become a geographer. However, I thought deeply about the matter and concluded it was too difficult a subject.
With some reluctance I then turned to physics as a substitute.
Einstein

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

Water and air, the two
essential fluids on which
all life depends, have
become global garbage
cans.
Jacques Cousteau

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