Top 34 Quotes by Ellsworth Huntington

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

As a matter of fact, an ordinary desert supports a much greater variety of plants than does either a forest or a prairie.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.