It’s technically habitable, but it only makes four…

Throw leaders into an extreme environment, and it will separate the stark differences between greatness and mediocrity.

— James C. Collins

Having one less child is the biggest contribution anyone can make to leaving a habitable planet

— John Guillebaud

Where on the globe can there be found an area of equal extent with that occupied by the bulk of our States, so fertile…

— Henry David Thoreau

“This world, in which reason is more and more at home, is not habitable. It is hard and cold like those depots in which…

— Emmanuel Lévinas

A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.

— Bram Stoker

“To me, wanting every habitable planet to be inhabited is like wanting everybody to have athlete's foot.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

Habit! that skillful but slow arranger, which starts out by letting our spirit suffer for weeks in a temporary state, but that thespirit is…

— Marcel Proust

Next to reasoning, the greatest handicap to the optimum development of Man lies in the fact that this planet is just barely habitable. Its…

— James Thurber

“Mortal has not been a habitable place for a long time. We have been trying to survive patching it but one day it will…

— Carolina Cody Aldaz

Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue!

— Anonymous

Were getting closer and closer to finding a habitable world.

— Sara Seager

The outer world, from which we cower into our houses, seemed after all a gentle habitable place; and night after night a man's bed,…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“We have built cities that scrape the sky, machines that think and a global network that allows people to yell at each other at…

— Natalie Kyriacou

The room has to be comfortable; the house has to look habitable.

— Adolf Loos

The story seems to be that almost every star has a planetary system... and, also, the definition of 'habitable zone' has expanded. In our…

— Frank Drake