"The buffalo is a surprisingly stupid animal." — Ellsworth Huntington

"The buffalo is a surprisingly stupid animal."

— 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…
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…
No part of the world can be truly understood without a knowledge of its garment of vegetation, for this determines…
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…
Man could not stay there forever. He was bound to spread to new regions, partly because of his innate migratory…
Thus the races, though alike in their physical response to climate, may possibly be different in their mental response because…
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…
As a matter of fact, an ordinary desert supports a much greater variety of plants than does either a forest…

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At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will… — Francis of Assisi
People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile. — David Attenborough
There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the… — David Attenborough
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I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how… — David Attenborough
I'm not an animal lover if that means you think things are nice if you can pat them, but I… — David Attenborough
If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in… — David Attenborough
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