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
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
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
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
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
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
I will defend the absolute value of Mozart over Miley Cyrus, of course I will, but we should be wary of false… — Stephen Fry 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
The field of quantum possibility, in which love has opened doors otherwise unimaginable, is our soul's true habitat. The world of fear… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Whether it's exploring the woods around where I grew up, or even today exploring the coastal habitats and environments where I live… — Jeff Corwin Copy Share Image
When environments change, they usually do so pretty rapidly, at rates with which adaptation by natural selection would be hard put to… — Ian Tattersall Copy Share Image
Habitat for Humanity is a cause that is near and dear to my heart. I am proud to be a part of… — Reba McEntire Copy Share Image
Nine out of 10 Hollywood aliens look like us. Oh, sure, they might be short, big-eyed and hairless - decked out in… — Seth Shostak 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
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
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
The rhino is now more or less extinct, and it's not because of global warming or shrinking habitats. It's because of Beyonce's… — Anonymous 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
For to wish to forget how much you loved someone-- and then, to actually forget-- can feel, at times, like the slaughter… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
Artists cannot help themselves; they are driven to create by their nature, but for that nature to truly thrive, we need to… — William Morris Copy Share Image
I am never a stranger anywhere I go, and it gives me the opportunity to choose my habitat by literally throwing a… — Dean Haglund Copy Share Image
If you care about shorebirds and the habitats they rely on, you can’t do better than supporting Manomet’s Shorebird Recovery Project. It… — Phillip Hoose Copy Share Image
We have been working with Habitat for Humanity and we have built eighty homes, 80% of which are being lived in by… — Harry Connick, Jr Copy Share Image
There are never victories in conservation. If you want to save a species or a habitat, it's a fight forevermore. You can… — George Schaller Copy Share Image
You have to save the habitat, you have to save the population - not individual animals. What you want to save is… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
So much of the habitat destruction and pollution is based on the simple principle that we somehow have been given free license… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
The dragons I would write about would not be the rather generalized, big, green things that I had read about in storybooks.… — Cressida Cowell Copy Share Image
Many scientists would argue that we are now in what is called Extinction, and it's caused by this perfect extinction storm: climate… — Jeff Corwin Copy Share Image
Many of our actions degrade our habitat because we undertake them in order to reach goals whose allure blinds us to myriad… — Steven M. Stanley Copy Share Image
I think it is very important to conserve and protect the natural world. I’ve just come back from Costa Rica and they… — Colin Morgan Copy Share Image
Habitat has opened up unprecedented opportunities for me to cross the chasm that separates those of us who are free, safe, financially… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Man, especially in our time, has without hesitation devastated wooded plains and valleys, polluted waters, disfigured the earth's habitat, made the air… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The rainforest is being cut down at alarming rates, and orangutans are losing their habitats and are being killed, as a result,… — Katie Cleary Copy Share Image
Natural selection is just three factors - over-production, variation, and inheritance combined to produce adaptation to changing local environments. It's not a… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
