"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."

Nature, Knowledge, Majority, Occupations

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"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."

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"Life is a flowing river. We came from earth and water. We will go back there after the magic of life."

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"Clear skies do not promise rain."

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"Spring dances with joy in every flower and in every bud letting us know that changes are beautiful and an inevitable law of life."

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"A puddle repeats infinity, and is full of light; nevertheless, if analyzed objectively, a puddle is a piece of dirty water spread very thin on mud."

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"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."

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"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."

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"America is the last great goal of these migrations."

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"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."

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

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"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."

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