Top 34 Quotes by Ellsworth Huntington

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

The buffalo is a surprisingly stupid animal.

America is the last great goal of these migrations.

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.