44 Quotes by Ellsworth Huntington

The coast of British Columbia was one of the three chief centers of aboriginal America.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Curiously enough man's body and his mind appear to differ in their climatic adaptations.

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

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.

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.