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