American - Educator | September 16, 1876 - October 17, 1947
Year by year we are learning that in this restless, strenuous American life of ours vacations are essential.
Ellsworth Huntington
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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.
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In America the most widespread type of forest is the evergreen coniferous woodland of the north.
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Except on their southern borders the great northern forests are not good as a permanent home for man.
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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.
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As a matter of fact, an ordinary desert supports a much greater variety of plants than does either a forest or a prairie.
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The coast of British Columbia was one of the three chief centers of aboriginal America.
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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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The buffalo is a surprisingly stupid animal.
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From first to last the civilization of America has been bound up with its physical environment.
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