Top 34 Quotes by Ellsworth Huntington

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

The buffalo is a surprisingly stupid animal.

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.

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.