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Ellsworth Huntington

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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


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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


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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


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


— Ellsworth Huntington


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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


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


— Ellsworth Huntington


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


— Ellsworth Huntington


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America is the last great goal of these migrations.


— Ellsworth Huntington


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As a matter of fact, an ordinary desert supports a much greater variety of plants than does either a forest or a prairie.


— Ellsworth Huntington


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


— Ellsworth Huntington


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Did you know about Ellsworth Huntington?

1943) pp. 365-376in JSTOR
Martin Geoffrey J. 1924)
"Climatic Change and Agricultural Exhaustion as Elements in the Fall of Rome" Quarterly Journal of Economics Vol.

He served as Presidents of the Ecological Society of America in 1917 the Association of American Geographers in 1923 and the President of the Board of Directors of the American Eugenics Society from 1934 to 1938. He taught at Euphrates College Turkey (1897–1901); accompanied the Pumpelly (1903) and Barrett (1905–1906) expeditions to central Asia; and wrote of his Asian experiences in Explorations in Turkestan (1905) and The Pulse of Asia (1907). He was on the original standing committee of the Foundation for the Study of Cycles from 1941.

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