Ellsworth Huntington Quotes

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Ellsworth Huntington

Profession : Educator

Birth : September 16, 1876

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

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

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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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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It seems strange that almost no other traces of the strong vikings are found in America.

Ellsworth Huntington

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

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

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

Ellsworth Huntington

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

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