Best Habitat Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Steve Thomas Rooney embraces a simple concept of providing a hand up versus a hand out to families in need. We are deeply grateful to volunteers, donors and other supporters around the world who help us with this life-changing work”

Humanity Humanism Volunteerism Habitat

Book:This Old House Guide to American Houses

Source: This Old House Guide to American Houses

“We will spend billions making inhospitable distant planets habitable. And yet we spend trillions destroying the abundant ingredients for life on our home planet.”

Life Nature Compassion Environment Planets Climate Change Sustainability Habitat

Author:Freequill

“A climate's changes are tough to quantify. Butterflies can help. Entomologists prefer "junk species--" the kind of butterflies too common for most collections-- to keep up with what's going on in the insect's world. They're easy to find and observe. When do something unusual, something's changed in the area. Art Shapiro's team at UC Davis monitors ten local study sites, some since the 1970s. The ubiquitous species are the study's go-tos, helping distinguish between lasting changes (climate warming, habitat loss) and ones that will right themselves (one cold winter, droughts like last year's). Consistency is key; they collect details year after year, no empty data sets between. A few species have disappeared from parts of the study area altogether, probably a lasting change. On the other hand, seemingly big news in 2012 might be just a year's aberration. Two butterflies came back to the city of Davis last year, the umber skipper after 30 years, the woodland skipper after 20-- both likely a result of a dry winter with near-perfect breeding conditions of sunny afternoons and cool nights.”

Environment Climate Change Patterns Changes Butterflies Habitat

Author:Johnson Rizzo National Geographic Feb. 2013

“Find some grass, or some wetlands, a pond, a lake, a stream, etc. Move some rocks, some branches, some vines, some leaves. It’s easier to spot [frogs] when they hop, otherwise they just blend into their habitat, so a little disturbance goes a long way.”

Rocks Grass Branches Frogs Disturbance Habitat Lake Stream Wetlands Hop

Author:Aesop Rock

“Because feeding grains to farmed animals is wasteful, only 37% of current croplands are needed if we shift to a vegan diet”

Environment Vegan Sustainability Veganism Habitat Animal Studies Environmental Ethics Diet And Environment

Book:Eating Earth: Environmental Ethics and Dietary Choice

Source: Eating Earth: Environmental Ethics and Dietary Choice

“Room temperature for one, may not be room temperature for another. It's easier to stay warm, when we are cold, as camouflage for other senses. Circumstance.”

Philosophy Sound Cold Climate Heat Contrast Habitat Shades Adaption Gradient

Author:Monaristw

“As long as the wetland looks pretty and also attracts ducks from time to time, it is regarded as a complete success. An attractive appearance is fine and is of considerable concern in urban developments. It is the pretense that such wetlands also create rich habitats which is objectionable, when urban development is the primary cause of loss of diversity in a wide range of ecosystems around cities including wetlands. The one ecologically positive thing that most created wetlands do a reasonable job of is water treatment, because the limited range of plants likely to survive the semi-toxic soils and waters of newly created wetlands are invariably colonisers that will also use up a wide range of nutrients.”

Habitat Ecosystem Wetlands Urban Encroachment

Book:Wetland Habitats [OP]: A Practical Guide to Restoration and Management

Source: Wetland Habitats [OP]: A Practical Guide to Restoration and Management

“I should like my house to be similar to that of the ocean wind, all quivering with gulls.”

Space Sea Habitat Poetics Of Space

Book:De terre et d'envolée

Source: De terre et d'envolée

“Zulu, we do this quick and easy,” Ray said. “No ripping his chest apart, taking out his heart, and painting his blood across the pavement.” “Come on. I did that once, and you still won’t leave it alone.” I shrugged my shoulders and leaned back in the van’s backseat.”

Habitat Ray Zulu Caged View

Book:Caged View

Source: Caged View

“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.”

Ifs Needs Natural Animal Policy Becoming Animal Rights Pursued Zoos Animal Welfare Caricatures Habitat Wild Animal Save Mother Earth Animals In Nature Nature And Animals Natural Habitats

Author:Michael J. Fox

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

Country Water Wealth Air Ocean Rivers Environmental Forests Soil Lakes Wildlife Minerals Habitat Scenic

Author:Gaylord Nelson

“'Extinction' issue. Save the species for whom??? Humans' convenience, of course! Individuals of the species are snatched from their homes/family/habitat/held in captivity/forced to mate at great physical/ spiritual pain. When the right numbers are reached, their holocaust starts all over again! Another merry-go-round/ bu$ine$$ a$ u$ual!!! Protectionists/welfarists find it a profitable issue: no controversy/ easy donations! I'd rather see an entire species extinct than in the hands of the humans!”

“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.”

Knows May Earth Nature Animal Responsibility Known Generations Late Plant Too Late Capability Organisms Insects Future Generation Habitat

Book:Worlds in Harmony

Source: Worlds in Harmony

“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.”

Want Individual Animal Resources Foundation Population What You Want Infrastructure Habitat Boo Boo

Author:Ted Nugent

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

Speak Wildlife Habitat

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“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.”

Looks Fall Water Half Degrees Computer Projects Models Productions Disaster Nine Australia Darling Habitat Food Production Vertebrates Disaster Movie

Author:Jeff Goodell

“For to wish to forget how much you loved someone-- and then, to actually forget-- can feel, at times, like the slaughter of a beautiful bird who chose, by nothing short of grace, to make a habitat of your heart.”

Feels Heart Beautiful Wish Forget Grace Bird Slaughter Habitat

Author:Maggie Nelson

“Darwinian natural selection only yields adaptation to changing local environments, and better function in an immediate habitat might just as well be achieved by greater simplicity in form and behavior as by ever-increasing complexity.”

Wells Might Form Natural Environment Greater Behavior Function Simplicity Locals Complexity Yield Selection Adaptation Natural Selection Habitat Natural Habitats

Book:Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms

Source: Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms

“(The processes are) doubly ruinous: they impoverish the earth by hastily removing, for the benefit of a few generations, the common resources which, once expended and dissipated, can never be restored; and second, in its technique, its habits, its processes, the paleotechnic period is equally inimical to the earth considered as a human habitat, by its destruction of the beauty of the landscape, its ruining of streams, its pollution of drinking water, its filling the air with a finely divided carboniferous deposit, which chokes both life and vegetation.”

“If there are favourable habitats and favorable forms of association for animalsand plants, as ecology demonstrates, why not for men? If each particular natural environment has has its own balance; is there not perhaps an equivalent of this in culture?”

Ifs Men Form Culture Natural Environment Particular Balance Plant Why Not Association Ecology Natural Environment Habitat

Author:Lewis Mumford

“Traveling across the United States, it's easy to see why Americans are often thought of as stupid. At the San Diego Zoo, right near the primate habitats, there's a display featuring half a dozen life-size gorillas made out of bronze. Posted nearby is a sign reading CAUTION: GORILLA STATUES MAY BE HOT. Everywhere you turn, the obvious is being stated. CANNON MAY BE LOUD. MOVING SIDEWALK IS ABOUT TO END. To people who don't run around suing one another, such signs suggest a crippling lack of intelligence.”

Source: Me Talk Pretty One Day

“Gershwin's tragedy was not that he failed to cross the tracks, but rather that he did, and once there in his new habitat, was deprived of the chance to plunge his roots firmly into the new soil.”

Chance Crosses Roots Tragedy Track Soil Deprived Plunge Habitat Gershwin

Author:George Gershwin

“All over the world there must be far-reaching changes in animal behavior and habitat; if only one could have another life in which to chart it all... Ah, well, that's not a fruitful thing to wish, is it?”

Ifs World Wells Wish Animal Behavior Reaching Habitat Another Life Animal Behavior

Author:Brian Aldiss

“When women think of power, we shouldn’t think of it only for ourselves. We should be thinking about what we’re going to do with power, once we have it. Women should be standing up powerfully and passionately for the care and protection of children, as well as the care and protection of the Earth itself. Women’s voices should be front and center in protecting both our young and our habitat. That’s the way it is in any species that survives.”

Thinking Way Should Wells Children Care Earth Young Voice Fronts Standing Species Protection Habitat

Author:Marianne Williamson

“Socialism is, among other things, the political habitat of low self-esteem, incompetence, self-loathing, and a willingness to steal - or have stolen for you what you are unable or unwilling to work for. Socialism is a philosophy fit only for slugs, leaches, and mosquitoes.”

Self Philosophy Political Self Esteem Fit Lows Stealing Socialism Esteem Willingness Stolen Unwilling Low Self Esteem Incompetence Loathing Self Loathing Habitat Mosquitoes Slugs

Author:L. Neil Smith

“If you want to catch more fish, more often, take luck out of your fishing equation and replace it with knowledge of fish, their habitat and behavior, and you will make your own luck.”

Ifs Want Sea Behavior Rivers Luck Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Equations Habitat

Author:Tony Bishop

“Bird taxonomy is a difficult field because of the severe anatomical constraints imposed by flight. There are only so many ways to design a bird capable, say, of catching insects in mid-air, with the result that birds of similar habitats tend to have very similar anatomies, whatever their ancestry. For example, American vultures look and behave much like Old World vultures, but biologists have come to realize that the former are related to storks, the latter to hawks, and that their resemblances result from their common lifestyle.”

“Natural selection is just three factors - over-production, variation, and inheritance combined to produce adaptation to changing local environments. It's not a principle or progress; it's just a principle of local adaptation. You don't make better creatures in any cosmic sense; you make creatures that are better suited to the changing climates of their local habitats.”

Three Natural Principles Environment Progress Produce Creatures Climate Productions Locals Factors Cosmic Selection Adaptation Inheritance Variation Natural Selection Habitat

Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“To wade in marshes and sea margins is the destiny of certain bird, and they are so accurately made for this that they are imprisoned in those places. Each animal out of its habitat would starve. To the physician, each man, each woman, is an amplification of one organ. A soldier, a locksmith, a bank-clerk, and a dancer could not exchange functions. And thus we are victims of adaptation.”

Source: The works of Ralph Waldo Emerson in one volume: including the poems, philosophic and inspirational essays, and biographical studies

“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.”

Science Environment Mouths Leaving Population Atmosphere Damage Habitat Illiteracy Unprepared

Book:Small Wonder

Source: Small Wonder

“I've never known a Philadelphian who wasn't a downright 'character'; possibly a defense mechanism resulting from the dullness of their native habitat.”

Character Cities Known Defense Boredom Native Mechanism Philadelphia Habitat Dullness Defense Mechanisms

Book:Kiss Hollywood good-by

Source: Kiss Hollywood good-by

“How much do people really want to learn? I mean, some people get into a groove and they stay with it indefinitely. And what starts off as a great moment of explosive passion can end up as cabaret 25, 30 years later. It just depends on whether you go and find the right habitat to extend yourself.”

People Want Years Mean Ends Moments Passion Depends Explosives Groove Habitat Great Moments Cabaret

Author:Robert Plant

“Louis [Leakey] was anxious to initiate a scientific study of these chimpanzees. It would be difficult, he emphasized, for nothing was known; there were no guidelines for such a field study; and the habitat was remote and rugged. Dangerous wild animals would be living there, and chimpanzees themselves were considered at least four times stronger than humans. I remember wondering what kind of scientist he would find for such a herculean task.”

“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.”

Knows Needs Believe Helping I Believe Know How Achieve Planets Creatures I Believe In Disappear Reaching Trends Destroying Reach Out Reverse Habitat

Author:Morgan Freeman

“Together we are stronger, our voices louder, and the synergy of our actions more powerful. Together we can prevail on the Navy to put commonsense safeguards in place, like requiring its ships to avoid the most sensitive marine mammal habitats and to stop their training exercises during peak migrations.”

Action Together Voice Powerful Exercise Training Stronger Ships Sensitive Navy Marine Our Actions Migration Habitat Mammals Synergy Together We Can

Author:Pierce Brosnan

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

Way I Can Stations Wildlife Shrinking Habitat

Author:Peter Coyote

“If you look at the carrying capacity of agricultural areas throughout the world, their ecological habitats are changing. So I think we're looking at - in our lifetime - great collapses of food services.”

Ifs Thinking World Looks Areas Capacity Lifetime Collapse Ecological Habitat Food Service

Author:Dan Barber

“With biobanking there's just another tool available to make sure that the land we actually conserve has better biodiversity values. It's usually more contiguous. You see, just because you preserve two dozen trees at the end of a development site doesn't mean that's a great habitat.”

Mean Two Ends Values Tree Land Development Tools Available Preserves Dozen Site Habitat Biodiversity

Author:Frank Sartor

“No matter the location of the build site, the religion, gender or ethnicity of the homeowners or volunteers, there is a sense of authentic community that links Habitat partners. It's exactly this kind of shared commitment that has sustained Habitat for three decades, and, similarly, it will be a renewed commitment that's necessary to meet the challenges ahead. I don't have to remind you that the need for decent housing is immense. Our tenacity is equally vast.”

Needs Kind Matter Three Community Challenges Commitment Gender Decades Partners Decent Links Immense Site Volunteer Location Housing Tenacity Ethnicity Habitat Homeowners

Author:Jonathan Reckford

“The entire Habitat family mourns the loss of our founder, a true giant in the affordable housing movement. Our prayers are with the entire Fuller family.”

Prayer Loss Movement Giants Founders Housing Our Prayers Mourn Affordable Habitat Affordable Housing

Author:Jonathan Reckford

“Conserving habitats is a wellspring for the next industrial revolution.”

Next Revolution Habitat Industrial Revolution Wellspring Conserving

Author:Janine Benyus

“Planners and designers should encourage as much diversity in human habitats as they find in animal habitats. It is not possible to resolve all conflicts or to gain all ends. Choices have to be made. Different aspects of the public good should be stressed in different places. To achieve variety in land use patterns, there should also be a variety of relationships between the professions, not an institutionalized decision-making tree. Relationships between the constructive professions should, therefore, be deconstructed.”

“Neither moral relations nor the moral law can swing in vacuo. Their only habitat can be a mind which feels them; and no world composed of merely physical facts can possibly be a world to which ethical propositions apply.”

World Feels Mind Facts Law Moral Relation Ethical Swings Propositions Habitat Moral Law

Book:William James: Essays and Lectures

Source: William James: Essays and Lectures

“Ghosts, we hope, may be always with us - that is, never too far out of the reach of fancy. On the whole, it would seem they adapt themselves well, perhaps better than we do, to changing world conditions - they enlarge their domain, shift their hold on our nerves, and, dispossessed of one habitat, set up house in another. The universal battiness of our century looks like providing them with a propitious climate.”

World Wells Looks May Whole Seems House Fantasy Conditions Century Universal Climate Ghost Fancy Nerves Providing Domain Habitat

Author:Elizabeth Bowen

“In response to criticism of its treatment of killer whales, Sea World said it will build them a larger habitat. When asked for comment, killer whales said, 'Hey, you know what's a larger habitat?' THE OCEAN.”

“The social brain is in its natural habitat when we're talking with someone face-to-face in real time.”

Real Faces Social Natural Brain Talking Emotional Face To Face Habitat Natural Habitats

Author:Daniel Goleman

“I must stress, basically, the very fact that we do have orangutan rehabilitation means that we have failed to do what is really important, and that is rescue the wild orangutan in its habitat.”

Mean Important Facts Stress Rescue Rehabilitation Habitat Orangutans

Author:Willie Smits

“...to emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on Heaven is to create hell. In their desperate longing to transcend the disorderliness, friction, and unpredictability that pesters life; in their desire for a fresh start in a tidy habitat, germ-free and secured by angels, religious multitudes are gambling the only life they may ever have on a dark horse in a race that has no finish line.”

Source: Skinny Legs and All

“Can we disregard the growing phenomenon of "environmental refugees", people who are forced by the degradation of their natural habitat to forsake it - and often their possessions as well - in order to face the dangers and uncertainties of forced displacement? Can we remain impassive in the face of actual and potential conflicts involving access to natural resources? All these are issues with a profound impact on the exercise of human rights, such as the right to life, food, health and development.”

Source: The Garden of God

“Man, especially in our time, has without hesitation devastated wooded plains and valleys, polluted waters, disfigured the earth's habitat, made the air unbreathable, disturbed the hydro-geological and atmospheric systems, turned luxuriant areas into deserts and undertaken forms of unrestrained industrialization, degrading that 'flower bed'-which is the earth, our dwelling place.”

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