Habitable Quotes
30 quotes by 28 authors
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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
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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
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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
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We have to all shoulder the responsibility for keeping the planet habitable, or we're going to suffer the consequences - together.
— Barack Obama
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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
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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
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Having one less child is the biggest contribution anyone can make to leaving a habitable planet
— John Guillebaud
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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It is that unoccupied space which makes a room habitable, as it is our leisure hours which make life endurable.
— Lin Yutang
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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
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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
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The room has to be comfortable; the house has to look habitable.
— Adolf Loos
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A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.
— Bram Stoker
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In the 50,000 years that followed—a time four to eight times shorter than the entire length of time the Neanderthals existed—the replacement crowd not only…
— Svante Paabo
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It was easy enough to despise the world, but decidedly difficult to find any other habitable region.
— Edith Wharton
Who Wrote These Habitable Quotes
28 authors contributed a total of 30 Habitable Quotes, led by these top contributors: