Nevertheless most of the evergreen forests of the north must always remain the home of wild animals and trappers, a backward region… — Ellsworth Huntington Copy Share Image
No part of the world can be truly understood without a knowledge of its garment of vegetation, for this determines not only… — Ellsworth Huntington Copy Share Image
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… — Ellsworth Huntington Copy Share Image
After washing there was no place to pour the water except out of the window onto the heads of the people in the streets,… — Ellsworth Huntington Copy Share Image
Although farming of any sort was almost as impossible in the plains as in the dry regions of winter rains farther west, the abundance… — Ellsworth Huntington Copy Share Image
America forms the longest and straightest bone in the earth's skeleton. — Ellsworth Huntington Copy Share Image
It seems strange that almost no other traces of the strong vikings are found in America. — Ellsworth Huntington Copy Share Image
Again and again, to be sure, on the way to America, and under many other circumstances, man has passed through the most adverse climates… — Ellsworth Huntington Copy Share Image
Year by year we are learning that in this restless, strenuous American life of ours vacations are essential. — Ellsworth Huntington Copy Share Image
Except on their southern borders the great northern forests are not good as a permanent home for man. — Ellsworth Huntington Copy Share Image
From first to last the civilization of America has been bound up with its physical environment. — Ellsworth Huntington Copy Share Image
It will be a vast boon to mankind when we learn to prophesy the precise dates when cycles of various kinds will reach definite… — Ellsworth Huntington Copy Share Image
Fertile soil, level plains, easy passage across the mountains, coal, iron, and other metals imbedded in the rocks, and a stimulating climate, all shower… — Ellsworth Huntington Copy Share Image
History in its broadest aspect is a record of man's migrations from one environment to another. — Ellsworth Huntington Copy Share Image
