“但是燃燒的火山也能夠會再復甦的。”小王子打斷了地理學家，“甚麼叫長久？”

"What is a geographer" asked the little prince.

“啊！我那邊，”小王子說道，“冇有多粗心義，那兒甚麼都很小。我有三座火山，兩座是活的，一座是燃燒了的。但是也很難說它還會不會噴發。”

The little prince sat down on the table and panted a little. He had already traveled so much and so far!

"What place would you advise me to visit now" he asked.

“因為一個扯謊話的探險家會給地理書帶來災害性的結果。一樣，一個太愛喝酒的探險家也是如此。”

Chapter 15

“我另有一朵花。”

"Exactly," the geographer said. "But I am not an explorer. I haven’t a single explorer on my planet. It is not the geographer who goes out to count the towns, the rivers, the mountains, the seas, the oceans, and the deserts. The geographer is much too important to go loafing about. He does not leave his desk. But he receives the explorers in his study. He asks them questions, and he notes down what they recall of their travels. And if the recollections of any one among them seem interesting to him, the geographer orders an inquiry into that explorer’s moral character.""Why is that"

"We do not record flowers," said the geographer.

“我是地理學家。”老先生說。

“地球，”地理學家答覆他說，“它很著名……”

"Why is that The flower is the most beautiful thing on my planet!""We do not record them," said the geographer, "because they are ephemeral.""What does that mean― ‘ephemeral'""Geographies," said the geographer, "are the books which, of all books, are most concerned with matters of consequence. They never become old-fashioned. It is very rarely that a mountain changes its position. It is very rarely that an ocean empties itself of its waters. We write of eternal things.""But extinct volcanoes may come to life again," the little prince interrupted. "What does that mean― ‘ephemeral'""Whether volcanoes are extinct or alive, it comes to the same thing for us," said the geographer. "The thing that matters to us is the mountain. It does not change.""But what does that mean― ‘ephemeral'" repeated the little prince, who never in his life had let go of a question, once he had asked it.