Ellsworth Huntington Quotes

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

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

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

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

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• The buffalo is a surprisingly stupid animal.

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

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

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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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