Habitat Quotes

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  I believe our biggest issue is the same biggest issue that the whole world is facing, and that's habitat destruction.

  Steve Irwin

  Believe, Issues, Environmental

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• The most important thing is to preserve the world we live in. Unless people understand and learn about our world, habitats, and animals, they won't understand that if we don't protect those habitats, we'll eventually destroy ourselves.

  Jack Hanna

  Animal, Our World, People

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• Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all.

  Michael J. Fox

  Zoos, Animal, Needs

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• There would be very little point in my exhausting myself and other conservationists themselves in trying to protect animals and habitats if we weren't at the same time raising young people to be better stewards.

  Jane Goodall

  Animal, People, Earth Day

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• The wildlife and its habitat cannot speak, so we must and we will.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Wildlife, Speak

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• What is a fish without a river? What is a bird without a tree to nest in? What is an Endangered Species Act without any enforcement mechanism to ensure their habitat is protected? It is nothing.

  Jay Inslee

  Rivers, Bird, Tree

  "House Approves Revised Endangered Species Act". "Morning Edition", www.npr.org. September 30, 2005.

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• Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.

  William Wordsworth

  Life, Education, Teacher

  William Wordsworth (1837). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...”, p.337

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• Habitat gives us an opportunity which is very difficult to find: to reach out and work side by side with those who never have had a decent home-but work with them on a completely equal basis. It's not a big-shot, little-shot relationship. It's a sense of equality.

  Jimmy Carter

  Home, Opportunity, Giving

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• Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.

  John Dewey

  Mother, Nature, Home

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Abraham Kaplan (2008). “The Later Works of John Dewey, 1925-1953, Volume 10: 1934, Art as Experience”, p.34, SIU Press

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• The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.

  E. O. Wilson

  Loss, Years, Diversity

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• One researcher just determined that African and Indian elephants make each other sick. When a new animal or plant is introduced to a habitat bad things happen. The biggest danger to native wildlife is foreign wildlife.

  Robert T. Bakker

  Animal, Elephants, Sick

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• The wealth of the nation is its air, water, soil, forests, minerals, rivers, lakes, oceans, scenic beauty, wildlife habitats and biodiversity... that's all there is. That's the whole economy. That's where all the economic activity and jobs come from. These biological systems are the sustaining wealth of the world.

  Gaylord Nelson

  Jobs, Ocean, Rivers

  Gaylord Nelson, Paul A. Wozniak, Susan M. Campbell (2002). “Beyond Earth Day: Fulfilling the Promise”, p.157, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• What we call 'economic growth' is in fact a growth in waste and a decline in the health of natural habitat

  Satish Kumar

  Nature, Growth, Waste

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• The natural habitat of the tongue is the left cheek.

  Red Smith

  Tongue, Natural, Cheeks

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• You have to save the habitat, you have to save the population - not individual animals. What you want to save is the foundation, the basic infrastructure from which resources are produced. You can't save Fifi and Boo-Boo and Thumper.

  Ted Nugent

  Animal, Foundation, Population

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• Fungi are the grand recyclers of the planet and the vanguard species in habitat restoration.

  Paul Stamets

  Restoration, Vanguard, Fungi

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• Habitat for wildlife is continually shrinking - I can at least provide a way station.

  Peter Coyote

  Shrinking, Way, Wildlife

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• People habitat has to take priority over bird habitat.

  Byron Dorgan

  People, Priorities, Bird

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• So much of the habitat destruction and pollution is based on the simple principle that we somehow have been given free license over other species to degrade the planet.

  Greg Graffin

  Simple, Principles, Pollution

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• Wildlife needs wilderness-not just to survive, but also to live freely. Sadly, many species struggle to survive due to increased human activity and expansion into habitats they call home.

  Zoe Helene

  Struggle, Home, Expansion

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• I believe in helping the planet survive, and that includes reaching out to help some of the disappearing creatures whose habitats we're destroying. It's up to us to somehow reverse that trend. I don't know how we'll achieve it, but we need to.

  Morgan Freeman

  Believe, Needs, Trends

  "Morgan Freeman–born to be Morgan". Interview with Kam Williams, www.philasun.com. April 11, 2011.

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• Many of the earth's habitats, animals, plants, insects and even micro-organisms that we know to be rare may not be known at all by future generations. We have the capability and the responsibility to act; we must do so before it is too late.

  Dalai Lama

  Nature, Responsibility, Animal

  The Dalai Lama (2009). “Worlds in Harmony”, p.42, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Woods and forests have been essentialt to the imagination of these islands, and of countries throughout the world, for centuries. It is for this reason that when woods are felled, when they are suppressed by tarmac and concrete and asphalt, it is not only unique species and habitats that disappear, but also unique memories, unique forms of thought.

  Robert Macfarlane

  Country, Memories, Unique

  Robert Macfarlane (2008). “The Wild Places”, p.69, Penguin

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• Scientific illiteracy in our populations is leaving too many of us unprepared to discuss or understand much of the damage we are wreaking on our atmosphere, our habitat, and even the food that enters our mouths.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Science, Leaving, Atmosphere

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “Small Wonder”, p.116, Faber & Faber

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• The structure of a software system provides the ecology in which code is born, matures, and dies. A well-designed habitat allows for the successful evolution of all the components needed in a software system.

  Richard E. Pattis

  Learning, Successful, Evolution

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