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Ellsworth Huntington

"From first to last the civilization of America has been bound up with its physical environment."

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Donna Grant

"This civilization is the impact of the world's consumption behavior."

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Donna Grant

"Without civilization, we would not turn into animals, but vegetables."

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Donna Grant

"Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell."

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Donna Grant

"In the world of primitive savages, religion and bigotry go hand in hand. But, in the world of civilized humans, religion and reason must go hand in hand."

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Donna Grant

"Old people have wisdom but not energy; young people have energy but not wisdom; energy and wisdom must be in the same body to create a much better civilisation! To do this, we will either give energy to the old or we will give wisdom to the young and for now the latter seems a more plausible action!"

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Donna Grant

"For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization."

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Donna Grant

"Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights."

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Donna Grant

"Adoration is a sign of an infant civilization."

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Donna Grant

"A civilization is built upon the edifice of genuine human minds, not the primitive and deluded minds of barbarian apes, who in most cases read one book of opinions written hundreds or thousands of years ago and think that they have factual answers to all the questions in the world."

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Donna Grant

"Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind."

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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."

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

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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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Ellsworth Huntington
"Surprising as it may seem, this study indicates that similar conditions are best for all sorts of races."

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Ellsworth Huntington
"From first to last the civilization of America has been bound up with its physical environment."

Civilization

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

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Ellsworth Huntington
"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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Ellsworth Huntington
"A journey of four hundred and thirty miles can be made in any part of the United States, but in Turkey it takes as many days."

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