Quotes from Ellsworth Huntington

It seems strange that almost no other traces of the strong vikings are found in America.

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

The geysers and hot springs of the Yellowstone are another proof of recent volcanic activity.

America is the last great goal of these migrations.

Again and again, to be sure, on the way to America, and under many other circumstances, man has passed through the most adverse climates and has survived, but he has flourished and waxed strong only in certain zones.

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 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.

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

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.

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

According to the now almost universally accepted theory, all the races of mankind had a common origin.

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

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

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.