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• For the source of any characteristic so widespread and uniform as this adaptation to environment we must go back to the very…
• From first to last the civilization of America has been bound up with its physical environment.
• History in its broadest aspect is a record of man's migrations from one environment to another.
• In fact, the history of North America has been perhaps more profoundly influenced by man's inheritance from his past homes than by…
• No part of the world can be truly understood without a knowledge of its garment of vegetation, for this determines not only…
• America forms the longest and straightest bone in the earth's skeleton.
• With every throb of the climatic pulse which we have felt in Central Asia,, the centre of civilisation has moved this way…
• Man could not stay there forever. He was bound to spread to new regions, partly because of his innate migratory tendency and…
• Thus the races, though alike in their physical response to climate, may possibly be different in their mental response because they have…
• Although mountains may guide migrations, the plains are the regions where people dwell in greatest numbers.
• A journey of four hundred and thirty miles can be made in any part of the United States, but in Turkey it…
• As a matter of fact, an ordinary desert supports a much greater variety of plants than does either a forest or a…

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