Ellsworth Huntington Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”