2007/01/02

The World Geography (february)

Some philosophers of the 20th century were absolutely persuaded that the 21rst century would be religious or it wouldn’t be. The question is to know which of these passed twenty centuries has not been religious?
In other words, the right question about future seems to reside elsewhere, perhaps where it seems to not lie. Why not inside Geography ?
“What do we know exactly about geography today?” is neither the right question nor the more interesting. The more interesting is to seek what we still don’t know about this science. Where haven’t we observed, what sort of knowledge have we ignored, moreover what mean have we missed to employ or why have we taken so few about Poetry for instance?
Let us remember the unforgettable definition Beaudelaire made about Nature when
writing ‘Correspondances’ within “Spleen and Ideal”:

“... La Nature est un temple où de vivants piliers laissent parfois sortir de confuses
paroles; l’homme y passe à travers des forêts de symboles qui l’observent avec des
regards familier
s ...”.

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