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.
- Ellsworth Huntington Quote

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.
- Ellsworth Huntington Quote

America forms the longest and straightest bone in the earth's skeleton.
- Ellsworth Huntington Quote

America is the last great goal of these migrations.
- Ellsworth Huntington Quote

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

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.
- Ellsworth Huntington Quote

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.
- Ellsworth Huntington Quote

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

History in its broadest aspect is a record of man's migrations from one environment to another.
- Ellsworth Huntington Quote

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.
- Ellsworth Huntington Quote

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.
- Ellsworth Huntington Quote

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.
- Ellsworth Huntington Quote

Surprising as it may seem, this study indicates that similar conditions are best for all sorts of races.
- Ellsworth Huntington Quote

The coast of British Columbia was one of the three chief centers of aboriginal America.
- Ellsworth Huntington Quote

The geysers and hot springs of the Yellowstone are another proof of recent volcanic activity.
- Ellsworth Huntington Quote

The Indians could not undertake any widespread cultivation of the plains not only because they lacked iron tools but also because they had no draft animals.
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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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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.
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We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers.
- Ellsworth Huntington Quote