Ellsworth Huntington Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”