Ellsworth Huntington Quotes

We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers.
Ellsworth Huntington

Beauty, Love, Nature

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.
Ellsworth Huntington

Blessings, Easy, Level

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.
Ellsworth Huntington

Life, Made, Impossible

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.
Ellsworth Huntington

Great, Home, Easy

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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Nature, Knowledge, Human

The coast of British Columbia was one of the three chief centers of aboriginal America.
Ellsworth Huntington

America, Three, British

Year by year we are learning that in this restless, strenuous American life of ours vacations are essential.
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Life, Learning, American

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.
Ellsworth Huntington

Made, Days, United

According to the now almost universally accepted theory, all the races of mankind had a common origin.
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Almost, Common, Mankind

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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Everything, After, Place

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.
Ellsworth Huntington

Strong, Through, America

Although mountains may guide migrations, the plains are the regions where people dwell in greatest numbers.
Ellsworth Huntington

Greatest, May, Mountains

America forms the longest and straightest bone in the earth's skeleton.
Ellsworth Huntington

America, Earth, Longest

America is the last great goal of these migrations.
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Great, Goal, America

As a matter of fact, an ordinary desert supports a much greater variety of plants than does either a forest or a prairie.
Ellsworth Huntington

Matter, Fact, Either

Curiously enough man's body and his mind appear to differ in their climatic adaptations.
Ellsworth Huntington

Mind, Enough, Body

Except on their southern borders the great northern forests are not good as a permanent home for man.
Ellsworth Huntington

Good, Great, Home

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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Human, Beginning, Race

From first to last the civilization of America has been bound up with its physical environment.
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America, Last, Physical

Geologists are rapidly becoming convinced that the mammals spread from their central Asian point of origin largely because of great variations in climate.
Ellsworth Huntington

Great, Point, Becoming

History in its broadest aspect is a record of man's migrations from one environment to another.
Ellsworth Huntington

History, Another, Aspect

In America the most widespread type of forest is the evergreen coniferous woodland of the north.
Ellsworth Huntington

America, Forest, North

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.
Ellsworth Huntington

Home, History, Past

It seems strange that almost no other traces of the strong vikings are found in America.
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Strong, America, Strange

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.
Ellsworth Huntington

Nature, Stay, Forever

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Born: 1876

Died: 1947

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