Geography

Geography is and science, and the school subject. Geography examines the shell of our planet and all that is connected with it. Another important question, which is engaged in geography - the interaction of man and nature
\"Geography is a science, which studies the current state of the earth's surface. She strives to find a causal relationship between forms and phenomena, the combination of which predetermines the dissimilarity of the various parts of the surface, examines their nature, distribution and influence on the life and culture of a person... She is studying law in combination of those elements, which are included in the scope of the study we list Sciences, and the influence of these associations on the man\".
(А.Н.Краснов. Geography as a new University science, 1889)
“Geography in relation to a person is not that other, as the history of the space, just as history is a geography of time”
\"Amidst the darkness of that envelop the past of mankind in the course of many centuries, we can still learn some internal link between the fate of humanity and the activities of terrestrial forces.... Just as the surface of the Earth is rolling out before our eyes infinite number of types of enchanting beauty, it's just so Grand and the flow of history detects the sequence of events scene, majestic in its beauty... In the alternation of centuries before our mental view is magnificent lessons of life; they are grouped in a certain order and, in the end, composed of even the basic laws...\".
(Э.Реклю. The people and the Earth, 1905)
\"These two planetary shell, the air and the sea, make a single whole nature, which predetermines on the earth's surface all the variety of climates: respectively, the relative distribution of the sea on Earth, the fragmentation and the shape of the (orientation) of the solid land, direction and height of the mountain ridges. From this study the interaction of air, sea and land comes that the meteorological phenomena cannot be understood without the help of diagnostic indications. Meteorology, together with the geography of plants and animals, only then beginning to make some progress when established confidence in the interdependence of phenomena, which are studied these Sciences\".
(О.Гумбольдт. Space, 1844)