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"Up to 80 percent of the fish that we catch spend at least part of their lives in estuaries."
"A few hours' ride brought us to the banks of the river Kansas."
"Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression."
"How can the mind take hold of such a country? Generations of invaders have tried, but they remain in exile. The important towns they build are only retreats, their quarrels the malaise of men who cannot find their way home. India knows of their trouble. She knows of the whole world's trouble, to its uttermost depth. She calls "Come" through her hundred mouths, through objects ridiculous and august. But come to what? She has never defined. She is not a promise, only an appeal."
"There isn't a parallel of latitude but thinks it would have been the equator if it had had its rights."
"Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here."
Explore more quotes by Ellsworth Huntington
"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."
"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."
"The geysers and hot springs of the Yellowstone are another proof of recent volcanic activity."
"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."
"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."
"Although mountains may guide migrations, the plains are the regions where people dwell in greatest numbers."
"From first to last the civilization of America has been bound up with its physical environment."
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