"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."

Ability, Climate, Man, Mind

34

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"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."

Exlpore more Ability quotes

"It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

Ability, Act, Advice, Profit

"Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle."

Franklin D. Roosevelt, American President

Ability, Taxes

"If you're going to play hockey now, you have to be able to play. If you have the ability to fight and play, you're an unbelievable commodity. But if you can only fight, there might be six of those guys left in the league, and I can guarantee they're going fast."

Brett Hull, American Athlete

Ability, Fight, Now, Play

"I really enjoy myself in Norway. Because I had started losing confidence in my ability of what I do. But sometimes, man, you just get tired of fighting and trying to prove yourself."

Ike Turner, American Musician

Ability, Confidence, Fighting, Losing

"Pluripotent cells have the ability to grow into any cell in the body."

Nathan Deal, American Politician

Ability, Body

"There must be such a thing as a child with average ability, but you can't find a parent who will admit that it is his child."

Thomas Bailey Aldrich, American Poet

Ability, Will

"The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly."

Vance Packard, American Writer

Ability, Difference, Man

"I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar."

Mike Figgis, English Director

Ability, Guitar, Play

"Those who can't, try: those who can, don't have to."

Idries Shah, Indian Author

Ability, Action, Effort, Success

"A book comes and says, "Write me." My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate."

Madeleine L'Engle, American Novelist

Ability, Job

Explore more quotes by Ellsworth Huntington

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

Diversity

"Year by year we are learning that in this restless, strenuous American life of ours vacations are essential."

Life

"Although mountains may guide migrations, the plains are the regions where people dwell in greatest numbers."

People

"History in its broadest aspect is a record of man's migrations from one environment to another."

History

"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."

Geography

"We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers."

Nature

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

Goal

"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."

Earth

"According to the now almost universally accepted theory, all the races of mankind had a common origin."

Mankind

"America forms the longest and straightest bone in the earth's skeleton."

Geography