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"The silver Thames takes some part of this county in its journey to Oxford."
"When I was in the fourth grade, I became intensely interested in geography and I learned it well."
"Spring has many American faces. There are cities where it will come and go in a day and counties where it hangs around and never quite gets there. Summer is drawn blinds in Louisiana, long winds in Wyoming, shade of elms and maples in New England."
"I grew up in Columbus, Indiana, a kind of industrial and farmland place."
Explore more quotes by Ellsworth Huntington
"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."
"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."
"The geysers and hot springs of the Yellowstone are another proof of recent volcanic activity."
"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."
"Surprising as it may seem, this study indicates that similar conditions are best for all sorts of races."
"From first to last the civilization of America has been bound up with its physical environment."
"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."
"It seems strange that almost no other traces of the strong vikings are found in America."
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