Ellsworth Huntington Quotes

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

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

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. - Ellsworth Huntington

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. - Ellsworth Huntington

The Negro, however, has been tested on an extensive scale. - Ellsworth Huntington

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. - Ellsworth Huntington

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. - Ellsworth Huntington

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

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. - Ellsworth Huntington

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

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