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  • 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
  • New York is a city with virtually no habitable public space - only private spaces expensively maintained within the general disaster. -- John Updike
  • Planets that don't currently sport plate tectonics, such as Venus and Mars, are scarcely habitable. Tectonics might be a requirement of any world that aspires to a rich diversity of life. -- Seth Shostak
  • My own view is that being a vegetarian or vegan is not an end in itself, but a means towards reducing both human and animal suffering and leaving a habitable planet to future generations. -- Peter Singer
  • Iceland, though it lies so far to the north that it is partly within the Arctic Circle, is, like Norway, Scotland, and Ireland, affected by the Gulf Stream, so that considerable portions of it are quite habitable. -- Harry Johnston
  • Taking care of our families isn't just about putting food on the table today. It's about ensuring that our children and grandchildren will have a habitable world where they can get to know various species of sea turtles. -- Jane Velez-Mitchell
  • Data from orbiting telescopes like NASA's Kepler Mission hint that the tally of habitable planets in our galaxy is many billion. If E.T.'s not out there, then Earth is more than merely special - it's some sort of miracle. -- Seth Shostak
  • In days gone by, scientists would speak solemnly about our solar system's 'habitable zone' - a theoretical region extending from Venus to Mars, but perhaps not encompassing either, where a planet would be the right temperature to have liquid water on its surface. -- Seth Shostak
  • One in 200 stars has habitable Earth-like planets surrounding it - in the galaxy, half a billion stars have Earth-like planets going around them - that's huge, half a billion. So when we look at the night sky, it makes sense that someone is looking back at us. -- Michio Kaku
  • The usual metric for whether a planet is habitable or not is to ascertain whether liquid water could exist on its surface. Most worlds will either be too cold, too hot or of a type (like Jupiter) that may have no solid surface and be swaddled in noxious gases. -- Seth Shostak
  • If you want this planet to continue being habitable for everyone that lives here, you have to limit the number of inhabitants. Hunters do it by killing off the old or sick animals in a herd, but I don't think that's a very ethical way of limiting the population. -- Christian de Duve
  • As chief scientist, it's sort of my job to look at bridges between what we do and to see the connections. But when we try to understand how are planets around other stars habitable... to looking back at the Earth - how are the changes that are taking place, how are they going to affect humanity? -- Ellen Stofan
  • Were getting closer and closer to finding a habitable world. -- Sara Seager
  • Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue! -- Benjamin Franklin
  • Having one less child is the biggest contribution anyone can make to leaving a habitable planet -- John Guillebaud
  • It was easy enough to despise the world, but decidedly difficult to find any other habitable region. -- Edith Wharton
  • We seem to think that the earth must go through the ordeal of sheep-pasturage before it is habitable by man. -- Henry David Thoreau
  • It is that unoccupied space which makes a room habitable, as it is our leisure hours which make life endurable. -- Lin Yutang
  • We have to all shoulder the responsibility for keeping the planet habitable, or we're going to suffer the consequences - together. -- Barack Obama
  • 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
  • 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 of calculation -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Every inhabitant of this planet must contemplate the day when this planet may no longer be habitable .. The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us. -- John F. Kennedy
  • 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 parts of the earth. -- William H. Calvin
  • 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 abode while it is habitable. -- William Ralph Inge
  • 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 into habitable and meaningful space. -- Arthur Erickson
  • 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 that habitable time interval in cosmic history. -- John D. Barrow
  • City planning finds its validation in the intuitive recognition that a burgeoning market society can not be trusted to produce spontaneously a habitable, sanitary, or even efficient city, much less a beautiful one. -- Murray Bookchin
  • The Congress, the Administration and the public all share a profound commitment to the rescue of our natural environment, and the preservation of the Earth as a place both habitable by and hospitable to man. -- Richard M. Nixon
  • At any moment there is certainly not balanced trade between the various areas of the habitable globe that happens to be under seperate national governments - there is an ever-changing pattern of deficits and surpluses. -- Joan Robinson
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