Natural Habitats Quotes

• The worst thing that will probably happen-in fact is already well underway-is not energy depletion, economic collapse, conventional war, or the expansion of totalitarian governments. As terrible as these catastrophes would be for us, they can be repaired in a few generations. The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is 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

  War, Loss, Government

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

  Red Smith

  Habitat, Tongue, Natural

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• I think it is very important to conserve and protect the natural world. I’ve just come back from Costa Rica and they are really big on eco tourism. They have lots of reserves, and they are really into protecting wildlife. I visited a reserve called Cabo Blanco. You walk into the reserve and there are capucine monkeys swinging from the trees and sloths. I am big into nature, and seeing animals in their natural habitats. I love it.

  Colin Morgan

  Thinking, Animal, Tree

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• 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.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Yield, Simplicity, Might

  Stephen Jay Gould (2011). “Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms”, p.355, Harvard University Press

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• We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.

  Dallas Willard

  Habitat, Kingdoms, Natural

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• A widening circle of researchers believes that the loss of natural habitat, or the disconnection from nature even when it is available, has enormous implications for human health and child development. They say the quality of exposure to nature affects our health at an almost cellular level.

  Richard Louv

  Children, Believe, Loss

  Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.41, Atlantic Books Ltd

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

  Daniel Goleman

  Real, Emotional, Talking

  "Focus on How You Connect With Others" by Daniel Goleman, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 12, 2013.

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• I'd love to see some animals in their natural habitat - as long as those animals are being well looked after.

  Greg Rutherford

  Animal, Long, Habitat

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• I am like the fish in the aquarium, thinking in a different language, adapting to a life that’s not my natural habitat. I am the people in the other cars, each with his or her own story, but passing too quickly to be noticed or understood.

  David Levithan

  Thinking, Aquariums, People

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.114, Egmont UK

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• 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.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Exercise, Order, Issues

  Pope Benedict XVI (2014). “The Garden of God”, p.41, CUA Press

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• The only creature on earth whose natural habitat is a zoo is the zookeeper.

  Robert Breault

  Zoos, Animal, Earth

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• Clutter is my natural habitat.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Habitat, Natural, Clutter

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.132, Scholastic UK

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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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• 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, Habitat

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• When I'm not shooting, I love going on adventures with friends. I love zip-lining through rainforests and different natural habitats, and I love writing music on the side, and I love drinking coffee. I'm a big coffee drinker and go to a lot of cafes and stuff.

  Max Schneider

  Coffee, Drinking, Adventure

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

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Habitat, Behavior, Natural

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• [My] excursions provided a unique opportunity for observing [the gorillas' behavior] in their natural habitat... Then, all too soon, the infants were demanded for their trip to the zoo. ... [H]appily the babies did not know they would never see their mountain home again

  Dian Fossey

  Baby, Zoos, Home

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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, Habitat

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• I doubt that religion can survive deep understanding. The shallows are its natural habitat. Cranks and fundamentalists are too often victimised as scapegoats for religion in general. It is only quite recently that Christianity reinvented itself in non-fundamentalist guise, and Islam has yet to do so.

  Richard Dawkins

  Business, Believe, Deep Understanding

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• You know what animals exist in the desert. He's going to his indigenous natural habitat. What better place for night crawlers?

  Don King

  Animal, Night, Boxing

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