As a matter of fact, an ordinary desert supports a much greater variety of plants than does either a forest or a prairie.

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

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.

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

In America the most widespread type of forest is the evergreen coniferous woodland of the north.

Man could not stay there forever. He was bound to spread to new regions, partly because of his innate migratory tendency and partly because of Nature's stern urgency.

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.

As a matter of fact, an ordinary desert supports a much greater variety of plants than does either a forest or a prairie.

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

The buffalo is a surprisingly stupid animal.

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

For the source of any characteristic so widespread and uniform as this adaptation to environment we must go back to the very beginning of the human race.

From first to last the civilization of America has been bound up with its physical environment.

America is the last great goal of these migrations.

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

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

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

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

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

The Negro, however, has been tested on an extensive scale.

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

In fact, the history of North America has been perhaps more profoundly influenced by man's inheritance from his past homes than by the physical features of his present home.

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.

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.

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.

Geologists are rapidly becoming convinced that the mammals spread from their central Asian point of origin largely because of great variations in climate.

Fertile soil, level plains, easy passage across the mountains, coal, iron, and other metals imbedded in the rocks, and a stimulating climate, all shower their blessings upon man.

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.

The geysers and hot springs of the Yellowstone are another proof of recent volcanic activity.

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.

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.

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.

Except on their southern borders the great northern forests are not good as a permanent home for man.

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.

At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules.

President Johnson and I have a lot in common. We were both born in small towns and we're both fortunate in the fact that we think we married above ourselves.

The fact is I've been in Massachusetts for the last two weeks, and it seems over the last few days that the price is increasing by the hour at the pump, so there needs to be an aggressive investigation.

In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.

Working-class Americans have waited too long, close to a decade in fact, for an increase in the minimum wage. This has been the second longest period without a pay raise since the Federal minimum wage law was first enacted in 1938.

The fact is, Latinos now own their own lives and I believe they can afford to look back without judgment.

The fact that it's science fiction gives you the license to do anything you want to do.

It has to do with the fact that Ford, for all his greatness, is an Irish egomaniac, as anyone who knows him will say.

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

I think the fact that I'm so well known to be gay makes it very difficult to have a convincing relationship with a woman on screen. It wouldn't be at all difficult for me to kiss a woman - I'll kiss a frog if you like.

People expect us to be different, but we're not. We're very similar people, and it's because we're so similar and close to each other that we make each other laugh - in fact we make each other laugh more than we make anyone else laugh.

I can't tell you how hard I worked the last year. In fact, I worked so hard that I know I can't maintain that same work level in 2001, so I've got to quit something.

The miracle of light pours over the green and brown expanse of saw grass and of water, shining and slowly moving, the grass and water that is the meaning and the central fact of the Everglades. It is a river of grass.

The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms.