Year by year we are learning that in this restless, strenuous American life of ours vacations are essential.
– Ellsworth Huntington
We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers.
– 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.
– Ellsworth Huntington
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.