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

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

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

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

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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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• Surprising as it may seem, this study indicates that similar conditions are best for all sorts of races.

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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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• The buffalo is a surprisingly stupid animal.

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

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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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• America is the last great goal of these migrations.

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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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• 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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• 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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Ellsworth Huntington (33)

Birth:	16th September, 1876
Death:	17th October, 1947
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Professor, Writer

About

Ellsworth Huntington was born in Galesburg, Illinois, USA. He was a professor of geography at Yale University during the early 20th century, known for his studies on climatic determinism, economic growth and economic geography. He served as President of the Ecological Society of America in 1917, the Association of American Geographers in 1923. He was one of the early twentieth century’s most prolific science writers. He wrote of his Asian experiences in Explorations in Turkestan and The Pulse of Asia. Leader of the Yale expedition to Palestine and Asia, he published Palestine and Its Transformation in 1911. These researches produced several works, including Civilization and Climate, The Human Habitat, and Mainsprings of Civilization. He graduated from Beliot College in 1897. He then studied at Harvard University in Massachisetts for two years.

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