Abstract
This essay was delivered as the 1995 Carl O. Sauer Memorial Lecture in the University of California at Berkeley and the text appears verbatim. The Sauer Lectures, inaugurated in 1978, celebrate the life and work of Carl Ortwin Sauer (1889–1975), Professor of Geography in the University of California from 1923 to 1957. Robin Donkin first went to Berkeley as a post-doctoral research fellow in 1955. The invitation to give the lecture in 1995 provided an opportunity to reflect on the ethos of the Berkeley School, the vision of its principal architect, and the influence of both on his own work over 40 years. Attention was also drawn to a rather surprising lacunain the Berkeley repertoire—the neglect of language as a primary source of geographical information. The lecture concluded with a few thoughts on the broad direction in which the discipline has moved in the last century or so and on the outlook for the future.
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