Ellsworth Huntington Quotes

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Ellsworth Huntington

Profession : Educator

Birth : September 16, 1876

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

Ellsworth Huntington

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

Ellsworth Huntington

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

Ellsworth Huntington

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

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The buffalo is a surprisingly stupid animal.

Ellsworth Huntington

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

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The geysers and hot springs of the Yellowstone are another proof of recent volcanic activity.

Ellsworth Huntington

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.

Ellsworth Huntington

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

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

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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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America is the last great goal of these migrations.

Ellsworth Huntington

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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According to the now almost universally accepted theory, all the races of mankind had a common origin.

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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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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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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.

Ellsworth Huntington