"Surprising as it may seem, this study indicates……" — Ellsworth Huntington
"Surprising as it may seem, this study indicates that similar conditions are best for all sorts of races."
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Ellsworth Huntington
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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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