Habitat Quotes - Page 6

• The limits of sensory evolution in fish are defined very largely by their habitat. Water is physically supportive, carries some kinds of odour well, and is kind to sound - letting it travel several times faster than air will allow, but it inhibits other more personal kinds of communication.

  Lyall Watson

  Communication, Air, Water

  "Jacobson's Organ and The Remarkable Nature Of Smell" by Lyall Watson, www.nytimes.com. 2000.

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• Our air, water, soil, forests, oceans, rivers, lakes, scenic beauty, wildlife habitat, minerals, that is the wealth of the country.

  Gaylord Nelson

  Country, Ocean, Lakes

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• In the long run, the only solution I see to the problem of diversity is the expansion of mankind into the universe by means of green technology... Green technology means we do not live in cans but adapt our plants and our animals and ourselves to live wild in the universe as we find it... When life invades a new habitat, she never moves with a single species. She comes with a variety of species, and as soon as she is established, her species spread and diversify further. Our spread through the galaxy will follow her ancient pattern.

  Freeman Dyson

  Running, Moving, Mean

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• This planet is an exquisitely arranged and interconnected system. What's controlled in one place is going to have consequences in another place. Our job as gardeners is to try and figure this out no matter how small our allotted space might be. Discipline has to be the watchword for our controlling hands. It means not gardening without thinking of the garden as a habitat: for mice, for squirrels, for bees and wasps. For other living creatures beyond ourselves.

  Marjorie Harris

  Life, Jobs, Mean

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• All the unhallowed beauty I have found; All free - discordant shrills and form-defying wonders above ground, like writhen trees with draggled foliage struggling along the courses of wayback creeks; scarlet - and - green sky - streaking parrot - fires with parrot shrieks echo - shattering the shoulders of the hills; and desert - sunset - rage Rage for my mind, be clamant, do not cease you are my holiest habitat of peace.

  Rex Ingamells

  Beauty, Struggle, Sunset

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• I will defend the absolute value of Mozart over Miley Cyrus, of course I will, but we should be wary of false dichotomies. You do not have to choose between one or the other. You can have both. The human cultural jungle should be as varied and plural as the Amazonian rainforest. We are all richer for biodiversity. We may decide that a puma is worth more to us than a caterpillar, but surely we can agree that the habitat is all the better for being able to sustain each.

  Stephen Fry

  May, Able, Rainforest

  Stephen Fry (2012). “The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography”, p.160, The Overlook Press

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• I'm pleased to see that the cab is cluttered with cough drop wrappers and empty milk bottles and bits of mud-smeared newspapers made brittle by age. Neatness makes me feel like I have to be on my best behavior. Clutter is my natural habitat.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Age, Bottles, Mud

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• Neatness makes me feel like I have to be on my best behavior. Clutter is my natural habitat.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Behavior, Natural, Clutter

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• No other life forms know they are alive, and neither do they know they will die. This is our curse alone. Without this hex upon our heads, we would never have withdrawn as far as we have from the natural—so far and for such a time that it is a relief to say what we have been trying with our all not to say: We have long since been denizens of the natural world. Everywhere around us are natural habitats, but within us is the shiver of startling and dreadful things. Simply put: We are not from here. If we vanished tomorrow, no organism on this planet would miss us. Nothing in nature needs us.

  Thomas Ligotti

  Long, Missing, Trying

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• After the group vet appointment--during which Lyle scratched the vet, the vet tech, and some poor woman minding her own business in the waiting room--we went back to Sabrina's and re-released the cats to their natural habitat.

  Sarah Dessen

  Cat, Waiting Rooms, Groups

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.174, Penguin

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• We have been working with Habitat for Humanity and we have built eighty homes, 80% of which are being lived in by New Orleans' musicians. It is called the Musicians' Village and at the center is the Ellis Marsalis Center for Music.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Home, New Orleans, Humanity

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• ...the gym is a kind of wildlife preserve for bodily exertion. A preserve protects species whose habitat is vanishing elsewhere, and the gym (and home gym) accommodates the survival of bodies after the abandonment of the original sites of bodily exertion.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Home, Survival, Body

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• Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they've had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world for more than 50-million years.

  E. O. Wilson

  Impact, Years, Land

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• I've always been such a fan of Habitat for Humanity and the work that they do.

  Lea Michele

  Humanity, Fans, Habitat For Humanity

  "Exclusive: Lea Michele On Helping Others, Rachel's Future, and Her Own Style". Interview with Lauren Levinson, www.elle.com. July 23, 2012.

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• If you care about shorebirds and the habitats they rely on, you can’t do better than supporting Manomet’s Shorebird Recovery Project. It connects, nurtures, prods, and fertilizes, at a global scale.

  Phillip Hoose

  Recovery, Care, Projects

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• I find it striking that the quality of the urban habitat of homo sapieans is so weakly researched compared to the habitats of gorillas, elephants, and Bengal tigers and panda bears in China…you hardly see anything on the habitat of man in the urban environment.

  Jan Gehl

  Men, Elephants, Quality

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• Government barriers on Business For example, the Endangered Species Act prevents 'disturbing the habitat' of the spotted owl. That has restricted 4.2 million acres of forest from development, leading to the loss of 30,000 lumber-related jobs and the annual loss of 1.1 billion board feet of lumber. This has driven up the cost of houses by at least $4,000 each. In addition, regulators ordered a Kansas City bank to install a Braille keypad on its drive-through automatic teller machine, presumably to aid any blind drivers. The list goes on and on.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Jobs, Business, Loss

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• Do you really want to know why I'm doing all this goodwill, and why I'm an ambassador for Habitat for Humanity and why I gave a million to [relief efforts for Hurricane] Katrina? It's because I feel guilty about the huge hole in the ozone layer my haircuts created. It's my responsibility to right the wrongs of the Eighties.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Responsibility, Ozone, Effort

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The flavor of patriotism depends upon its habitat.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Patriotism, Flavor, Depends

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• Agricultural demand for water - probably the largest threat to freshwater species - continues to increase. ... Meanwhile, threats to terrestrial biodiversity - primarily the conversion of habitat to agricultural uses ... - have not diminished.

  Indur M. Goklany

  Water, Use, Demand

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• It is a perversely human perception that animals in their native habitat are running wild.

  Robert Breault

  Running, Animal, Perception

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• With nine degrees of warming, computer models project that Australia will look like a disaster movie. Habitats for most vertebrates will vanish. Water supply to the Murray-Darling Basin will fall by half, severely curtailing food production.

  Jeff Goodell

  Fall, Australia, Water

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• The ocean is not just blank blue space but rather the habitat for amazing wildlife, and we have to take care how we use it. If we want to keep having the goods and services it provides, we have to treat it more carefully in terms of fishing and dumping.

  Carl Safina

  Ocean, Science, Blue

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• I root for hurricanes. When, courtesy of the Weather Channel, I see one forming in the ocean off the coast of Africa, I find myself longing for it to become big and strong--Mother Nature's fist of fury, Gaia's stern rebuke. Considering the havoc mankind has wreaked upon nature with deforesting, stripmining, and the destruction of animal habitat, it only seems fair that nature get some of its own back and teach us that there are forces greater than our own.

  James Wolcott

  Mother, Strong, Stupid

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• Man's deliberate destruction of his own habitat -- planet Earth -- could serve as a mighty theme for a mighty book worthy of a modern Melville or Tolstoy. But our best fictioneers confine themselves to domestic drama -- soap opera with literary trimmings.

  Edward Abbey

  Drama, Book, Men

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.48, RosettaBooks

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