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Original content is ©2006 The Constant Geographer. All Rights Reserved.
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to many other websites and those sites are subject to their own copyrights. The
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27.05.2008
No other statement sums up our personal geography with such brevity as the above quote. Zen-like in its simplicity, the quote is also very profound. Wherever we go, wherever we travel, we take our personal geography with us. Whether we travel to the shopping mall, or participate on a mission trip to Guatemala, we take who we are with us, our language, our religion, our personal traits and customs.
We are also influenced by the personal geography of those around us through our interaction with them. These people can exist in remote locations and yet still affect us.
Our personal geography also affects and is affected by our environment. We live in different climates and different terrains, creating unique physical environments.
The intent of geography is the examination of these personal geography relationships in order to develop an understanding of the world around us. Two questions are fundamental in this pursuit:
WHERE IS IT? and WHY IS IT THERE?
From the food we eat, the clothes we wear, the music we listen to, or how we spend our money, our personal geography affects those decisions. Some decisions are made for us, based on the similarity of a multitude of personal geographies, from social welfare issues like health care, the location of nuclear waste sites, to those decisions that decide who becomes our national friends, or foes.
My Mission as the Constant Geographer is to further the awareness of how intrinsic our personal geography is to our daily lives. Everything we do and everything we are can be viewed from a geographic perspective.
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What is Geography?
"Geography" refers to the study of the interrelationships among those things that are of the earth. People, places, things, ideas and their distributions on the earth's surface.