Ellsworth Huntington Quotes

• America forms the longest and straightest bone in the earth's skeleton.

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  Science, Skeletons, America

  Ellsworth Huntington (1920). “The Red Man's Continent: A Chronicle of Aboriginal America”, p.25, Library of Alexandria

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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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  Science, Men, History

  Ellsworth Huntington (2016). “A Chronicle of Aboriginal America: Juvenile History - - American”, p.2, VM eBooks

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• With every throb of the climatic pulse which we have felt in Central Asia,, the centre of civilisation has moved this way and that. Each throb has sent pain and decay to the lands whose day was done, life and vigour to those whose day was yet to be.

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  Life, Pain, Science

  Ellsworth Huntington (1907). “The Pulse of Asia: A Journey in Central Asia Illustrating the Geographical Basis of History”

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

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  Beauty, Nature, Learning

  Ellsworth Huntington (2016). “A Chronicle of Aboriginal America: Juvenile History - - American”, p.38, VM eBooks

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

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  Vacation, Years, Essentials

  Ellsworth Huntington (2016). “A Chronicle of Aboriginal America: Juvenile History - - American”, p.38, VM eBooks

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• 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.

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  Blessing, Men, Rocks

  Ellsworth Huntington (2016). “A Chronicle of Aboriginal America: Juvenile History - - American”, p.38, VM eBooks

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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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  Home, Science, Past

  Ellsworth Huntington (2016). “A Chronicle of Aboriginal America: Juvenile History - - American”, p.2, VM eBooks

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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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  Science, Men, America

  Ellsworth Huntington (2016). “A Chronicle of Aboriginal America: Juvenile History - - American”, p.9, VM eBooks

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

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  Numbers, People, House

  Ellsworth Huntington (2016). “A Chronicle of Aboriginal America: Juvenile History - - American”, p.20, VM eBooks

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

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  Science, Men, Mind

  Ellsworth Huntington (2016). “A Chronicle of Aboriginal America: Juvenile History - - American”, p.5, VM eBooks

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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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  Nature, Science, Men

  Ellsworth Huntington (1920). “The Red Man's Continent: A Chronicle of Aboriginal America”, p.10, Library of Alexandria

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• The buffalo is a surprisingly stupid animal.

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  Funny, Stupid, Animal

  Ellsworth Huntington (1920). “The Red Man's Continent: A Chronicle of Aboriginal America”, p.97, Library of Alexandria

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

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  America, Forests, Type

  Ellsworth Huntington (2016). “A Chronicle of Aboriginal America: Juvenile History - - American”, p.40, VM eBooks

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• 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.

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  Journey, Turkeys, United States

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

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  America, Three, Coast

  Ellsworth Huntington (2016). “A Chronicle of Aboriginal America: Juvenile History - - American”, p.56, VM eBooks

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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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  Race, America, Climate

  Ellsworth Huntington (2016). “A Chronicle of Aboriginal America: Juvenile History - - American”, p.5, VM eBooks

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• It will be a vast boon to mankind when we learn to prophesy the precise dates when cycles of various kinds will reach definite stages.

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  Kind, Stage, Boon

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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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  Knowledge, Science, Animal

  Ellsworth Huntington (1920). “The Red Man's Continent: A Chronicle of Aboriginal America”, p.58, Library of Alexandria

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• 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.

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  Rain, Winter, Dry

  Ellsworth Huntington (1920). “The Red Man's Continent: A Chronicle of Aboriginal America”, p.97, Library of Alexandria

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

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  Home, Men, Southern

  Ellsworth Huntington (1920). “The Red Man's Continent: A Chronicle of Aboriginal America”, p.60, Library of Alexandria

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• The whole history of life is a record of cycles.

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  Records, History Of Life, Life Is

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

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  Scales, Has Beens, Tested

  Ellsworth Huntington (2016). “A Chronicle of Aboriginal America: Juvenile History - - American”, p.3, VM eBooks

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

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  Science, Civilization, America

  Ellsworth Huntington (2016). “A Chronicle of Aboriginal America: Juvenile History - - American”, p.74, VM eBooks

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

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  Support, Ordinary, Doe

  Ellsworth Huntington (1920). “The Red Man's Continent: A Chronicle of Aboriginal America”

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• 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.

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  Science, Race, Environmental

  Ellsworth Huntington (2016). “A Chronicle of Aboriginal America: Juvenile History - - American”, p.5, VM eBooks

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