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 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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Again and again, to be sure, on the way to America, and under many other circumstances, man has passed through the most adverse climates and has survived, but he has flourished and waxed strong only in certain zones.
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The coast of British Columbia was one of the three chief centers of aboriginal America.
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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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