ABSTRACT
Each social group consumes the space it requires, and as a consequence it becomes identified with a region. This is the fundamental theme in identifying a human-oriented geography. Space is not exhausted after consumption, unlike money, which is exhausted after being consumed. Time is always present, along with space, in our real lives: thus we say, that now we are here. If we always consume time in our lives, then we also always consume space. Ultimately, each individual person consumes time and space, but we cannot hope to study every single individual if our purpose is to make human-oriented generalizations in the field of human geography, for this requires that to some extent we treat human beings as a mass. If we do treat individuals instead of masses, then we are apt to introduce subjective biases, as is often apparent in the field of humanistic geography.
