Ellsworth Huntington famous quotes

America forms the longest and straightest bone in the earth's skeleton.
-- Ellsworth Huntington

#America #Skeletons #Earth

Year by year we are learning that in this restless, strenuous American life of ours vacations are essential.
-- Ellsworth Huntington

#Vacation #Years #Essentials

We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers.
-- Ellsworth Huntington

#Beauty #Healer

With every throb of the climatic pulse which we have felt in Central Asia,, the centre of civilisation has moved this way and that. Each throb has sent pain and decay to the lands whose day was done, life and vigour to those whose day was yet to be.
-- Ellsworth Huntington

#Life #Pain #Land

Man could not stay there forever. He was bound to spread to new regions, partly because of his innate migratory tendency and partly because of Nature's stern urgency.
-- Ellsworth Huntington

#Nature #Men #Forever

Thus the races, though alike in their physical response to climate, may possibly be different in their mental response because they have approached America by different paths.
-- Ellsworth Huntington

#Race #America #Climate

Although mountains may guide migrations, the plains are the regions where people dwell in greatest numbers.
-- Ellsworth Huntington

#Numbers #People #Mountain

A journey of four hundred and thirty miles can be made in any part of the United States, but in Turkey it takes as many days.
-- Ellsworth Huntington

#Journey #Turkeys #United States

As a matter of fact, an ordinary desert supports a much greater variety of plants than does either a forest or a prairie.
-- Ellsworth Huntington

#Support #Ordinary #Doe

The human organism inherits so delicate an adjustment to climate that, in spite of man's boasted ability to live anywhere, the strain of the frozen North eliminates the more nervous and active types of mind.
-- Ellsworth Huntington

#Science #Men #America

Geologists are rapidly becoming convinced that the mammals spread from their central Asian point of origin largely because of great variations in climate.
-- Ellsworth Huntington

#Variation #Becoming #Mammals

In America the most widespread type of forest is the evergreen coniferous woodland of the north.
-- Ellsworth Huntington

#America #Forests #Type

No part of the world can be truly understood without a knowledge of its garment of vegetation, for this determines not only the nature of the animal inhabitants but also the occupations of the majority of human beings.
-- Ellsworth Huntington

#Animal #Majority #World

In fact, the history of North America has been perhaps more profoundly influenced by man's inheritance from his past homes than by the physical features of his present home.
-- Ellsworth Huntington

#Home #Past #Men

Fertile soil, level plains, easy passage across the mountains, coal, iron, and other metals imbedded in the rocks, and a stimulating climate, all shower their blessings upon man.
-- Ellsworth Huntington

#Blessing #Men #Rocks

The coast of British Columbia was one of the three chief centers of aboriginal America.
-- Ellsworth Huntington

#America #Three #Coast

Although farming of any sort was almost as impossible in the plains as in the dry regions of winter rains farther west, the abundance of buffaloes made life much easier in many respects.
-- Ellsworth Huntington

#Rain #Winter #Dry

Nevertheless most of the evergreen forests of the north must always remain the home of wild animals and trappers, a backward region in which it is easy for a great fur company to maintain a practical monopoly.
-- Ellsworth Huntington

#Home #Science #Animal

Curiously enough man's body and his mind appear to differ in their climatic adaptations.
-- Ellsworth Huntington

#Science #Men #Mind

Except on their southern borders the great northern forests are not good as a permanent home for man.
-- Ellsworth Huntington

#Home #Men #Southern

The Negro, however, has been tested on an extensive scale.
-- Ellsworth Huntington

#Scales

For the source of any characteristic so widespread and uniform as this adaptation to environment we must go back to the very beginning of the human race.
-- Ellsworth Huntington

#Race #Uniforms #Environment

From first to last the civilization of America has been bound up with its physical environment.
-- Ellsworth Huntington

#Civilization #America #Lasts

History in its broadest aspect is a record of man's migrations from one environment to another.
-- Ellsworth Huntington

#Men #Records #Migration

The buffalo is a surprisingly stupid animal.
-- Ellsworth Huntington

#Funny #Stupid #Animal