America forms the longest and straightest bone in the earth's skeleton.
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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.Ellsworth Huntington
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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Surprising as it may seem, this study indicates that similar conditions are best for all sorts of races.
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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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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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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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