Ecological Niche Quotes

#1. Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all.

Ernest Shackleton

#2. Coraline also explored for animals. She found a hedgehog, and a snakeskin )but no snake), and a rock that looked just like a frog, and a toad that looked just like a rock.

Neil Gaiman

#3. The whole [scientific] process resembles biological evolution. A problem is like an ecological niche, and a theory is like a gene or a species which is being tested for viability in that niche.

David Deutsch

#4. Don't delete it, don't are you an idiot???
Yes or No??
You have done it and now you must get the consequences, like it or not that's a lesson you must learn it.

Deyth Banger

#5. Success comes because you have found your ecological niche and can flourish by doing your own valuable thing.

Ted Malloch

#6. I am a trial lawyer. Matilda says that at dinner on a good day I sound like an affidavit.

Mario Cuomo

#7. It needs only to be good enough, which in the case of our species meant a level of intelligence sufficient to enable us to outwit the competitors in our ecological niche

Ray Kurzweil

#8. You guard against decay, in general, and stagnation, by moving, by continuing to move.

Mary Daly

#9. We live in a cultural milieu ... The idea that culture is our ecological niche is still applicable. The impact and force of natural selection on the human physique are conditioned by the dimensions of culture.

C. Loring Brace

#10. A wanted pregnancy as much as a dreaded pregnancy can play differently than all one's previous imaginings.

Susie Orbach

#11. I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw.

Edvard Munch

#12. Women are as brave as any man. They save their own without a second thought. But that's love isn't it? Loyalty. Women never give up, not when it's someone they love. Many a child wouldn't be here if they did.

Ann Perry

#13. These new people had something special: they were not prisoners of their ecological niche, but could change their habits quite easily if prey disappeared, or better opportunities arose.

Matt Ridley

#14. Facebook, Twitter and Google have all opened offices in Brazil, recognizing the importance of localizing their products and customer service efforts.

Ryan Holmes

#15. The voice of inner truth says, 'I embrace the unknown because it allows me to see new aspects of myself'.

Deepak Chopra

#16. I think that there are empty ecological niches in the literary landscape crying to be filled and when a book more or less fills a niche it's seized on, even when it's a far from perfect fit.

Edmund White

#17. It seems to me that now - suffering in the darkness that might just be the end of everything - is when we need knowledge the most.

Brandon Sanderson

#18. I, Joan Crawford, I believe in the dollar. Everything I earn, I spend.

Joan Crawford

#19. He that trusts much Obliges much, says the Spaniard.

George Herbert

#20. You are certainly unique. Everyone is unique. Nobody has ever suffered quite like you before because nobody has ever been you before.

Robertson Davies

#21. And finally: I reserve for myself the right to yearn after an ecological niche:
...Beneath the sky
Of my America to sigh
For one locality in Russia.

(a passage not for 'general readers' but for 'idiots')

Vladimir Nabokov