Observation

The fact is, people seldom truly speak with or listen to one another; more often than they care to admit, they deliver soliloquies, with each individual using another’s remark merely as a launching pad for his or her own performance.

—Yi-Fu Tuan, Chinese-American Geographer

What did Yi-Fu Tuan say about “place?”

It was Tuan who gave rise to the recognition among geographers that the intimacies of personal encounters with space produce “a sense of place.” “People think that geography is about capitals, land forms, and so on,” says Tuan. “But it is also about place — its emotional tone, social meaning, and generative potential.”

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