Habitat quotes
38 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Nightside, cities glistened in chains, and a spray of tinkertoy habitats girdled the planet. Gossamer starbridges reached from the equator towards orbit."
"The wildlife and its habitat cannot speak, so we must and we will."
"The natural habitat of the tongue is the left cheek."
"We are surrounded by the absurd excess of the universe. By meaningless bulk, vastness without size, power without consequence. The stubborn iteration that is present without being felt. Nothing the spirit can marry. Merely phenomenon and its physics. An endless, endless of going on. No habitat where the brain can recognize itself. No pertinence for the heart. Helpless duplication."
"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."
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"Just in the nick of time they realized that it was their own habitat they were wrecking -- that they weren't merely visitors."
"Nature learns and changes as a result of stimuli, and certain habitats of nature will be formed that weren't there before. That's how I look at reality."
