Environmental history... refer[s] to the past contact of man with his total habitat. . . . The environmental historian like the ecologist… — Roderick Nash Copy Share Image
“The infamous Venus flytrap lives only in one tiny swath of natural habitat—a 60-mile radius around Wilmington, North Carolina.” — Will Pearson Copy Share Image
Our air, water, soil, forests, oceans, rivers, lakes, scenic beauty, wildlife habitat, minerals, that is the wealth of the country. — Gaylord Nelson Copy Share Image
I am like the fish in the aquarium, thinking in a different language, adapting to a life that’s not my natural habitat.… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
If you look at the carrying capacity of agricultural areas throughout the world, their ecological habitats are changing. So I think we're… — Dan Barber Copy Share Image
The haven all memes depend on reaching is the human mind, but a human mind is itself an artifact created when memes… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
Made as we were in the image of God we scarcely find it strange to take again our God as our All.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Wildlife needs wilderness-not just to survive, but also to live freely. Sadly, many species struggle to survive due to increased human activity… — Zoe Helene Copy Share Image
“Zulu, we do this quick and easy,” Ray said. “No ripping his chest apart, taking out his heart, and painting his blood… — Kenya Wright Copy Share Image
Louis [Leakey] was anxious to initiate a scientific study of these chimpanzees. It would be difficult, he emphasized, for nothing was known;… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
We are facing an enormous crisis in Africa right now in terms of illegal wildlife trafficking, which is decimating animal populations, destroying… — David Jeremiah Barron Copy Share Image
There is no domestic issue more important to America in the long run than the conservation and proper use of our natural… — Gaylord Nelson Copy Share Image
Churches are the primary partners that work with Habitat in an almost infinite variety of creative overlapping circles. We cherish these partnerships… — Millard Fuller Copy Share Image
I root for hurricanes. When, courtesy of the Weather Channel, I see one forming in the ocean off the coast of Africa,… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
Here is something that the psychologists have so far neglected: the love of ugliness for its own sake, the lust to make… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Woods and forests have been essentialt to the imagination of these islands, and of countries throughout the world, for centuries. It is… — Robert Macfarlane Copy Share Image
I think that humans are also set up to survive. We're not as small as rats, but we make up for that… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
The Elgin Marbles were supposed to be on the Parthenon. For many works of art, a museum is an artificial setting -… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
Darwinian natural selection only yields adaptation to changing local environments, and better function in an immediate habitat might just as well be… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
All over the world there must be far-reaching changes in animal behavior and habitat; if only one could have another life in… — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
After the group vet appointment--during which Lyle scratched the vet, the vet tech, and some poor woman minding her own business in… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Nature learns and changes as a result of stimuli, and certain habitats of nature will be formed that weren't there before. That's… — David Wolfe Copy Share Image
Dating back to Teddy Roosevelt, hunters have been the pillar of conservation in America, doing more than anyone to conserve wildlife and… — Gale Norton Copy Share Image
I've never known a Philadelphian who wasn't a downright 'character'; possibly a defense mechanism resulting from the dullness of their native habitat. — Anita Loos Copy Share Image
Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they've had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
In response to criticism of its treatment of killer whales, Sea World said it will build them a larger habitat. When asked… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
You know what animals exist in the desert. He's going to his indigenous natural habitat. What better place for night crawlers? — Don King Copy Share Image
I would make a difference by banning unsustainable palm oil in order to save the rainforest and orangutan habitats along with the… — Katie Cleary Copy Share Image
If you want to catch more fish, more often, take luck out of your fishing equation and replace it with knowledge of… — Tony Bishop Copy Share Image
The structure of a software system provides the ecology in which code is born, matures, and dies. A well-designed habitat allows for… — Richard E. Pattis Copy Share Image
What is a fish without a river? What is a bird without a tree to nest in? What is an Endangered Species… — Jay Inslee Copy Share Image
It is clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. Everywhere they had run wild and taken… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Oceans are one of the most important things in the world now and that is a national security threat of the United… — Ian Somerhalder Copy Share Image
The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Just in the nick of time they realized that it was their own habitat they were wrecking -- that they weren't merely… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Gershwin's tragedy was not that he failed to cross the tracks, but rather that he did, and once there in his new… — George Gershwin Copy Share Image
Scientific illiteracy in our populations is leaving too many of us unprepared to discuss or understand much of the damage we are… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
We have converted huge swaths of land and ocean into human habitats where we live and grow food and harvest energy. But… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
If we don't preserve forest habitat for spotted owls, then soon we won't have trees to refresh the air we breathe. And… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
Nightside, cities glistened in chains, and a spray of tinkertoy habitats girdled the planet. Gossamer starbridges reached from the equator towards orbit. — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image