Ellsworth Huntington Quotes
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We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers.
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The coast of British Columbia was one of the three chief centers of aboriginal America.
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No part of the world can be truly understood without a knowledge of its garment of vegetation, for this determines not only the nature of the animal inhabitants but also the occupations of the majority of human beings.
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Nevertheless most of the evergreen forests of the north must always remain the home of wild animals and trappers, a backward region in which it is easy for a great fur company to maintain a practical monopoly.
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Man could not stay there forever. He was bound to spread to new regions, partly because of his innate migratory tendency and partly because of Nature's stern urgency.
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America forms the longest and straightest bone in the earth's skeleton.
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History in its broadest aspect is a record of man's migrations from one environment to another.
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Surprising as it may seem, this study indicates that similar conditions are best for all sorts of races.
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It seems strange that almost no other traces of the strong vikings are found in America.
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In fact, the history of North America has been perhaps more profoundly influenced by man's inheritance from his past homes than by the physical features of his present home.
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America is the last great goal of these migrations.
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The geysers and hot springs of the Yellowstone are another proof of recent volcanic activity.
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Thus the races, though alike in their physical response to climate, may possibly be different in their mental response because they have approached America by different paths.
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Although mountains may guide migrations, the plains are the regions where people dwell in greatest numbers.
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A journey of four hundred and thirty miles can be made in any part of the United States, but in Turkey it takes as many days.
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Curiously enough man's body and his mind appear to differ in their climatic adaptations.
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For the source of any characteristic so widespread and uniform as this adaptation to environment we must go back to the very beginning of the human race.
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The buffalo is a surprisingly stupid animal.
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The human organism inherits so delicate an adjustment to climate that, in spite of man's boasted ability to live anywhere, the strain of the frozen North eliminates the more nervous and active types of mind.
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The Indians could not undertake any widespread cultivation of the plains not only because they lacked iron tools but also because they had no draft animals.
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As a matter of fact, an ordinary desert supports a much greater variety of plants than does either a forest or a prairie.
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Today, no less than in the past, the tetrahedral form of the earth and the relation of the tetrahedron to the poles and to the equator preserve the conditions that favor rapid evolution.
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The Negro, however, has been tested on an extensive scale.
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Except on their southern borders the great northern forests are not good as a permanent home for man.