Ellsworth Huntington

The evidence points to central Asia as man's original home, for the general movement of human migrations has been outward from that…

— Ellsworth Huntington

After washing there was no place to pour the water except out of the window onto the heads of the people in…

— Ellsworth Huntington

Although farming of any sort was almost as impossible in the plains as in the dry regions of winter rains farther west,…

— Ellsworth Huntington

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

— Ellsworth Huntington

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

— Ellsworth Huntington

Again and again, to be sure, on the way to America, and under many other circumstances, man has passed through the most…

— Ellsworth Huntington

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

— Ellsworth Huntington

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

— Ellsworth Huntington

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

— Ellsworth Huntington

It will be a vast boon to mankind when we learn to prophesy the precise dates when cycles of various kinds will…

— Ellsworth Huntington

Fertile soil, level plains, easy passage across the mountains, coal, iron, and other metals imbedded in the rocks, and a stimulating climate,…

— Ellsworth Huntington

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

— Ellsworth Huntington

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

— Ellsworth Huntington

As a matter of fact, an ordinary desert supports a much greater variety of plants than does either a forest or a…

— Ellsworth Huntington

Man could not stay there forever. He was bound to spread to new regions, partly because of his innate migratory tendency and…

— Ellsworth Huntington

The Negro, however, has been tested on an extensive scale.

— Ellsworth Huntington

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

— Ellsworth Huntington

With every throb of the climatic pulse which we have felt in Central Asia,, the centre of civilisation has moved this way…

— Ellsworth Huntington

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

— Ellsworth Huntington

For the source of any characteristic so widespread and uniform as this adaptation to environment we must go back to the very…

— Ellsworth Huntington

Today, no less than in the past, the tetrahedral form of the earth and the relation of the tetrahedron to the poles…

— Ellsworth Huntington

Thus the races, though alike in their physical response to climate, may possibly be different in their mental response because they have…

— Ellsworth Huntington

The buffalo is a surprisingly stupid animal.

— Ellsworth Huntington

The geysers and hot springs of the Yellowstone are another proof of recent volcanic activity.

— Ellsworth Huntington

The human organism inherits so delicate an adjustment to climate that, in spite of man's boasted ability to live anywhere, the strain…

— Ellsworth Huntington