John Fraser Hart

John Fraser Hart (born April 5, 1924) is an American geographer. Over the course of his career he published over 150 scholarly papers, over a dozen books, and taught over 50,000 university students in his 65 years of teaching from 1949 until his retirement in 2015. Quotes Geography is a science, but it is also an art, because understanding the meaning of area cannot be reduced to a formal process. The highest form of the geographer's art is producing good regional geography- evocative descriptions that facilitate an understanding and an appreciation of places, areas, and regions. From 1982 paper in Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol. 72, No. 1 titled "The Highest Form Of The Geographer's Art*" The paper is based on Harts Presidential address delivered at the Seventy Seventh Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers in Los Angeles, California, on April 21, 1981 External links Category:Academics from the United States Category:Geographers from the United States Category:Non-fiction authors from the United States Category:1924 births Category:Living people