Habitat Destruction Quotes

#1. Our biggest challenges for the ocean and for the planet are problems of perception. People need to understand that species extinctions, habitat destruction, ocean acidification, and pollution are all chipping away at the resilience of the thin layer of life that sustains us on Spaceship Earth.

Edith Widder

#2. We are cynical about our own species, but less so about animals, especially wild ones. We might not shelter them from habitat destruction, but we do tend to shelter them from excessive irony.

Yann Martel

#3. Our demise may instead result from the habitat destruction that ensues when the AI begins massive global construction projects using nanotech factories and assemblers - construction

Nick Bostrom

#4. So much of the habitat destruction and pollution is based on the simple principle that we somehow have been given free license over other species to degrade the planet.

Greg Graffin

#5. The agent causing the most immediate damage to species in fresh water are dams, great boosters of local economies but unfortunately chief demons of aquatic habitat destruction. Their

Edward O. Wilson

#6. I believe our biggest issue is the same biggest issue that the whole world is facing, and that's habitat destruction.

Steve Irwin

#7. Causing harm is never just a one-way street.

Sharon Salzberg

#8. Alex moved closer to me, never taking his eyes from mine. "What if your eternity doesn't start when you die?" he asked carefully. "What if your eternity has been going on since before you were born?"
I stared at him with a blank face, wondering what drugs he was on.

Angela Corbett

#9. Batterers aren't renowned for taking responsibility for their abusiveness, Sam. They tend to shed blame like a snake molts.

Stephen White

#10. I would apologize for my rudeness, if I had any manners. Happily, I don't.

Tamora Pierce

#11. Man's deliberate destruction of his own habitat
planet Earth
could serve as a mighty theme for a mighty book worthy of a modern Melville or Tolstoy. But our best fictioneers confine themselves to domestic drama
soap opera with literary trimmings.

Edward Abbey

#12. A brave man is clear in his discourse, and keeps close to truth.

Aristotle.

#13. What he did know was that he was dangerous; he had nothing to offer any woman except pain.

Robert Jordan

#14. A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.

Voltaire

#15. Some of these guys wear beards to make them look intimidating, but they don't look so tough when they have to deliver the ball. Their abilities and their attitudes don't back up their beards.

Don Drysdale

#16. The easiest beneficence is a smile. The simplest release is to have a vegetarian meal.

Gautama Buddha

#17. Usually we think a person is obligated to do something that would benefit many people, but what if that "something" is committing murder? Which is more important, doing good - or not doing wrong?

William Irwin