"Except on their southern borders the great northern……" — Ellsworth Huntington
"Except on their southern borders the great northern forests are not good as a permanent home for man."
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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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More Borders Quotes
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Genres aren't closed boxes. Stuff flows back and forth across the borders all the time.
— Margaret Atwood
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In fact, allowing immigrants to have licenses actually improves homeland security by allowing our government to track who is in…
— Joe Baca
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I'm competitive with myself. I always try to push past my own borders.
— Tyra Banks
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It may be proper to observe, that I had now passed the utmost frontier of the white settlements on that…
— William Bartram
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When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will.
— Frederic Bastiat
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Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.
— Walter Benjamin
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We have to get control of our borders. You can only do that if you make companies obey the law…
— Michael Bloomberg
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House Republicans want to pass a strong border security, illegal immigration bill. We want a bill. There is no ifs,…
— John Boehner
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This resolution simply says Israel has the right to defend itself. This includes conducting operations both inside its borders and…
— John Boehner
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If I was in a refugee camp somewhere on the Pakistani border, of course I'd want to come to Australia.
— Tony Abbott
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Al-Qa'ida does not follow a traditional command structure, wear uniforms, carry its arms openly, or mass its troops at the…
— John O. Brennan
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A nation without borders is like a house without walls - it collapses. And that is what is going to…
— Jan Brewer
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