All Ellsworth Huntington Quotes
- 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… Adaptation
- From first to last the civilization of America has been bound up with its physical environment. America
- History in its broadest aspect is a record of man's migrations from one environment to another. Aspect
- 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… America
- 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… Animal
- America forms the longest and straightest bone in the earth's skeleton. America
- With every throb of the climatic pulse which we have felt in Central Asia,, the centre of civilisation has moved this way and that. Each… Asia
- 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… Bound
- 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… Alike
- Although mountains may guide migrations, the plains are the regions where people dwell in greatest numbers. Dwell
- 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… Any
- As a matter of fact, an ordinary desert supports a much greater variety of plants than does either a forest or a prairie. Desert
- 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… Ability
- Geologists are rapidly becoming convinced that the mammals spread from their central Asian point of origin largely because of great variations in climate. Asian
- In America the most widespread type of forest is the evergreen coniferous woodland of the north. America
- Year by year we are learning that in this restless, strenuous American life of ours vacations are essential. American
- 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… Across
- The coast of British Columbia was one of the three chief centers of aboriginal America. Aboriginal
- 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… Abundance
- 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… Always Remain
- Curiously enough man's body and his mind appear to differ in their climatic adaptations. Adaptation
- Except on their southern borders the great northern forests are not good as a permanent home for man. Borders
- The Negro, however, has been tested on an extensive scale. Been
- We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers. Beauty
- 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… Except