Ellsworth Huntington Quote

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.


The Red Man's Continent: A Chronicle of Aboriginal America (ed. 1919)


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...

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...

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...

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...