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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."

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"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."

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"Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants."

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"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."
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"Although mountains may guide migrations, the plains are the regions where people dwell in greatest numbers."
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"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."
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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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"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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"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."
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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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"According to the now almost universally accepted theory, all the races of mankind had a common origin."
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"We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers."
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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."
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