Habitable Quotes

30 quotes by 28 authors

The fruit of the tree of knowledge always drives man from some paradise or other; and even the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant… — William Ralph Inge
It is meritorious to insist on forms; religion and all else naturally clothes itself in forms. Everywhere the formed world is the only habitable one. — Thomas Carlyle
I urge individuals around the world to stand up, and ask local leaders, if they haven't already, to pledge to purchase cleaner cars, build green… — Leonardo DiCaprio
We have to all shoulder the responsibility for keeping the planet habitable, or we're going to suffer the consequences - together. — Barack Obama
If we don't start thinking big about the CO2 problem, we may miss our opportunity to stop a climate runaway that will trash the habitable… — William H. Calvin
Should we now explain to UK couples who plan a family that stopping at two children, or at least having one less than first intended,… — John Guillebaud
Having one less child is the biggest contribution anyone can make to leaving a habitable planet — John Guillebaud
By accepting responsibility, we take effective steps toward our goal: an inclusive human society on a habitable planet, a society that works for all humans… — Sharif Abdullah
There are only certain intervals of time when life of any sort is possible in an expanding universe and we can practise astronomy only during… — John D. Barrow
The number of habitable worlds in our galaxy is certainly in the tens of billions, minimum, and we haven't even talked about the moons. And… — Seth Shostak
The most fertile districts of the habitable globe are now actually cultivated by men for animals, at a delay and waste of aliment absolutely incapable… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Mountains have been formed by one [or other] of the causes of the formation of stone, most probably from agglutinative clay which slowly dried and… — Avicenna
Speaking of the murder of the younger Hanan, and other eminent nobles and hierarchs, Josephus says, "I cannot but think that it was because God… — Frederic Farrar
It is that unoccupied space which makes a room habitable, as it is our leisure hours which make life endurable. — Lin Yutang
Life is rich, always changing, always challenging, and we architects have the task of transmitting into wood, concrete, glass and steel, of transforming human aspirations… — Arthur Erickson
Nurturing and cherishing creation is a command God gives not only at the beginning of history, but to each of us. It is part of… — Pope Francis
The room has to be comfortable; the house has to look habitable. — Adolf Loos
A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century. — Bram Stoker
In the 50,000 years that followedâ€”a time four to eight times shorter than the entire length of time the Neanderthals existedâ€”the replacement crowd not only… — Svante Paabo
It was easy enough to despise the world, but decidedly difficult to find any other habitable region. — Edith Wharton

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