Quotes by Ellsworth Huntington

About Ellsworth Huntington:

Ellsworth Huntington was a professor of geography at Yale University during the early 20th century, known for his studies on climatic determinism, economic growth and economic geography. He served as President of the Ecological Society of America in 1917, the Association of American Geographers in 1923 and President of the Board of Directors of the American Eugenics Society from 1934 to 1938.
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Surprising as it may seem, this study indicates that similar conditions are best for all sorts of races.

Ellsworth Huntington

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

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

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

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

Ellsworth Huntington

America is the last great goal of these migrations.

Ellsworth Huntington

Nevertheless most of the evergreen forests of the north must always remain the home of wild animals and trappers, a backward region in which it is easy for a great fur company to maintain a practical monopoly.

Ellsworth Huntington

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

Ellsworth Huntington

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

Ellsworth Huntington

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

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

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

Ellsworth Huntington

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.

Ellsworth Huntington

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

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

Ellsworth Huntington

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

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

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

Ellsworth Huntington

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

Ellsworth Huntington

Although mountains may guide migrations, the plains are the regions where people dwell in greatest numbers.

Ellsworth Huntington

Author Bio

  • NameEllsworth Huntington
  • DescriptionAmerican geographer
  • BornSeptember 16, 1876
  • DiedOctober 17, 1947
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionGeopolitician; Geographer; Economist