Edward Burnett Tylor famous quotes

04-23-2025

If you are a married man resident in Cuba, you cannot get a passport to go to the next town without your wife's permission in writing.
-- Edward Burnett Tylor

#Writing #Men #Wife
The journey and excursions in Mexico which have originated the narrative and remarks contained in this volume were made in the months of March, April, May, and June of 1856, for the most part on horseback.
-- Edward Burnett Tylor

#Journey #June #Mexico
The habit of building houses upon piles, which was first forced upon the people by the position they had chosen, was afterwards followed as a matter of taste, just as it is in Holland.
-- Edward Burnett Tylor

#People #House #Matter
Even if severe wounds are given, the Indian has many chances in his favor, for his organization is somewhat different from that of white men, and he recovers easily from wounds that would kill any European outright.
-- Edward Burnett Tylor

#Men #Organization #White
There are even many huts built entirely of the universal aloe.
-- Edward Burnett Tylor
The plateau of Mexico is 8,000 feet high, and that of Puebla 9,000 feet.
-- Edward Burnett Tylor

#Feet #Mexico
Everything that is really Mexican is either Aztec or Spanish.
-- Edward Burnett Tylor

#Aztec #Mexican
During the Tertiary period the whole valley of Mexico was one great lake.
-- Edward Burnett Tylor

#Lakes #Valleys #Mexico
The interior of Mexico consists of a mass of volcanic rocks, thrust up to a great height above the sea-level.
-- Edward Burnett Tylor

#Rocks #Sea #Height
I am afraid the Spanish American has not always a very strict regard for truth.
-- Edward Burnett Tylor

#Truth #Strict
There was no romance about the mosquitos, however.
-- Edward Burnett Tylor

#Romance
Every one knows how the snow lies in the valleys of the Alps, forming a plain which slopes gradually downward towards the outlet Imagine such a valley ten miles across, with just such a sloping plain, not of snow but of earth.
-- Edward Burnett Tylor

#Lying #Snow #Valleys
Coughs seem very common here, especially among the children, though people look strong and healthy, but in the absence of proper statistics one cannot undertake to say whether the district is a healthy one or not.
-- Edward Burnett Tylor

#Strong #Children #People
We were very kindly received by the English merchants to whom my companion had letters, and we set ourselves to learn what was the real state of things in Mexico.
-- Edward Burnett Tylor

#Real #Mexico #Letters
Culture or civilization, taken in its wide ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society
-- Edward Burnett Tylor

#Art #Taken #Men
At sunset we are rattling through the streets of the little town of Cordova.
-- Edward Burnett Tylor

#Sunset #Littles #Towns
We are at last on the high lands of Mexico, the districts which at least three different races have chosen to settle in, neglecting the fertile country below.
-- Edward Burnett Tylor

#Country #Land #Race

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