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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• 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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• 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

  Tongue, Natural, Cheeks

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• People habitat has to take priority over bird habitat.

  Byron Dorgan

  People, Priorities, Bird

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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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• 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.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Progress, Climate, Principles

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• For example, in my district there are visitors from all over the world who are drawn to our beautiful beaches, recreational lakes, habitat wildlife preserves and golf courses.

  Mark Foley

  Beautiful, Beach, Golf

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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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• 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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• It is upsetting that many people don't seem to observe what's happening to the environment, what's happening in terms of global warming, the loss of habitats and wild things.

  Joanne Woodward

  Loss, People, Upset

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• Oceans are one of the most important things in the world now and that is a national security threat of the United States of America, to be honest with you. That is why seeing the habitat destroyed is so short-sighted by us.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Ocean, America, Important

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  William James

  Swings, Law, Mind

  William James (2016). “William James: Essays and Lectures”, p.237, Routledge

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• 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.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  House, World, May

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• Our work seeks to focus attention on the necessity of developing security for the global village, meeting its need for clean air, water, food and a healthy habitat, as well as fostering clarity of vision on cooperation and development.

  Rosalie Bertell

  Air, Water, Focus

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