Ellsworth Huntington Quotes
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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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From first to last the civilization of America has been bound up with its physical environment.
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Year by year we are learning that in this restless, strenuous American life of ours vacations are essential.
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According to the now almost universally accepted theory, all the races of mankind had a common origin.
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Fertile soil, level plains, easy passage across the mountains, coal, iron, and other metals imbedded in the rocks, and a stimulating climate, all shower their blessings upon man.
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Again and again, to be sure, on the way to America, and under many other circumstances, man has passed through the most adverse climates and has survived, but he has flourished and waxed strong only in certain zones.
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The evidence points to central Asia as man's original home, for the general movement of human migrations has been outward from that region and not inward.
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After washing there was no place to pour the water except out of the window onto the heads of the people in the streets, which is the proper place to throw everything that is not wanted.
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In America the most widespread type of forest is the evergreen coniferous woodland of the north.
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Although farming of any sort was almost as impossible in the plains as in the dry regions of winter rains farther west, the abundance of buffaloes made life much easier in many respects.