Top 34 Quotes by Ellsworth Huntington

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

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.

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

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.

Geologists are rapidly becoming convinced that the mammals spread from their central Asian point of origin largely because of great variations in climate.

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.

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.

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.

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