Quotes by Ellsworth Huntington - Page 1

We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers.
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Beauty
Learning
Nature
Health
Love Nature Learning
Beauty Love Nature
Greatest
Too
Healers
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The buffalo is a surprisingly stupid animal.
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Animal
Buffalo
Stupid
Surprisingly
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America is the last great goal of these migrations.
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Migration
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The Negro, however, has been tested on an extensive scale.
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Tested
Scale
Extensive
However
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America forms the longest and straightest bone in the earth's skeleton.
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Bone
Forms
Longest
Skeleton
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The coast of British Columbia was one of the three chief centers of aboriginal America.
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Aboriginal
British
British Columbia
Columbia
Centers
Chief
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It seems strange that almost no other traces of the strong vikings are found in America.
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Strange
Traces
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Curiously enough man's body and his mind appear to differ in their climatic adaptations.
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Adaptation
Appear
Curiously
Differ
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The geysers and hot springs of the Yellowstone are another proof of recent volcanic activity.
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Activity
Hot
Proof
Yellowstone
Springs
Recent
Volcanic
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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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History
Aspect
Environment
Migration
Another
Man
Record
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In America the most widespread type of forest is the evergreen coniferous woodland of the north.
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Woodland
Forest
Widespread
North
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Except on their southern borders the great northern forests are not good as a permanent home for man.
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Borders
Forests
Permanent
Good Home Great
Except
Northern
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According to the now almost universally accepted theory, all the races of mankind had a common origin.
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Accepted
Mankind
Theory
According
Origin
Races
Universally
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Surprising as it may seem, this study indicates that similar conditions are best for all sorts of races.
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Conditions
Study
Surprising
Races
Similar
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Although mountains may guide migrations, the plains are the regions where people dwell in greatest numbers.
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Migration
Numbers
Regions
Where May People
Greatest
Although
Guide
Plains
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Year by year we are learning that in this restless, strenuous American life of ours vacations are essential.
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Vacation
American Life
Essentials
Restless
Years
Essential
Ours
Strenuous
Vacations
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As a matter of fact, an ordinary desert supports a much greater variety of plants than does either a forest or a prairie.
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Desert
Ordinary
Prairie
Variety
Forest
Plants
Supports
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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.
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Journey
Miles
Thirty
Turkey
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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.
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Adaptation
Human Race
Characteristic
Widespread
Uniform
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Geologists are rapidly becoming convinced that the mammals spread from their central Asian point of origin largely because of great variations in climate.
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Asian
Becoming
Climate
Convinced
Mammals
Spread
Central
Largely
Origin
Rapidly
Variations
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The evidence points to central Asia as man's original home, for the general movement of human migrations has been outward from that region and not inward.
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Asia
Evidence
Inward
Migration
Movement
Central
Outward
Region
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The Indians could not undertake any widespread cultivation of the plains not only because they lacked iron tools but also because they had no draft animals.
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Cultivation
Iron
Tools
Animals
Draft
Widespread
Indians
Plains
Undertake
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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.
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Nature
Men
Science
Forever
Innate
Regions
Spread
Urgency
Stern
Partly
Tendency
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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 than by the physical features of his present home.
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Features
North America
Homes
In Fact
Influenced
Perhaps
Profoundly
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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.
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Response
Alike
Be Different
Mental
Paths
Races
Thus
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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.
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Coal
Fertile
Iron
Metals
Rocks
Soil
Blessings
Stimulating
Passage
Plains
Shower
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Today, no less than in the past, the tetrahedral form of the earth and the relation of the tetrahedron to the poles and to the equator preserve the conditions that favor rapid evolution.
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Conditions
Evolution
Relation
Favor
In The Past
Poles
Preserve
Rapid
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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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Streets
Washing
Window
Except
Heads
Onto
Pour
Proper
Throw
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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.
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Abundance
Dry
Easier
Farming
Impossible
Regions
West
Winter
Although
Farther
Many Respects
Plains
Rains
Respects
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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.
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Active
Adjustment
Delicate
Frozen
Nervous
Spite
Strain
Anywhere
Organism
Types
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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.
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Forests
Fur
Monopoly
Nevertheless
Home Great Always
Animals
Backward
Wild
Maintain
Practical
Region
Remain
Wild Animals
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Again and again, to be sure, on the way to America, and under many other circumstances, man has passed through the most adverse climates and has survived, but he has flourished and waxed strong only in certain zones.
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Adverse
Circumstances
Survived
Zone
Passed
Waxed
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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.
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Animal
Human Beings
Majority
Understood
Vegetation
Beings
Determines
Garment
Inhabitants
Occupations
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