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"I grew up in Columbus, Indiana, a kind of industrial and farmland place."
"The States which form the northern border of the United States westward from the Great Lakes to the Pacific coast include an area several times larger than France and could contain ten Englands and still have room to spare."
"I was not sorry for loving Charleston or for leaving it. Geography had made me who I was."
"When I was in the fourth grade, I became intensely interested in geography and I learned it well."
"Oh, the ignorance of us upon whom Providence did not sufficiently smile to permit us to be born in New England."
"Tel Aviv is new, built on the sand dunes north of Jaffa in the 1890s, about the same time Miami was founded. The cities bear a resemblance in size, site, climate, and architecture, which ranges from the bland to the fancifully bland."
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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."
"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."
"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."
"Although mountains may guide migrations, the plains are the regions where people dwell in greatest numbers."
"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."
"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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