HABITAT
World
Habitat Day - 1st Monday in October
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"Our work seeks to focus attention on the necessity
of developing security for the global village, meeting
its need for clean air, water, food and a healthy
habitat, as well as fostering clarity of vision on
cooperation and development."
-- Rosalie
Bertell
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A
world free of the threat of nuclear weapons is necessarily
a world devoid of nuclear weapons…. Nuclear weapons
pose an intolerable threat to humanity and our habitat….
-- General
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“Habitat
gives us an opportunity which is very difficult to
find: to reach out and work side by side with those
who never have had a decent home—but work with them
on a completely equal basis. It’s not a big-shot,
little-shot relationship. It’s a sense of equality."
-- Jimmy
Carter
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Nature
is the mother and the habitat of man,
even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.
-- John
Dewey
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Zoos
are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures -
of how animals once were in their natural habitat.
If the right policies toward nature were pursued,
we would need no zoos at all.
~Michael
J. Fox
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There
would be very little point in my exhausting myself
and other conservationist themselves in trying to
protect animals and habitats if we weren’t at the
same time raising young people to be better stewards.
~ Jane
Goodall
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I believe
our biggest issue is the same biggest issue that the whole
world is facing,
and that's habitat destruction.
-- Steve Irwin
"The
current massive degradation of habitat and extinction of
species
is taking place on a catastrophically short timescale,
and their effects will fundamentally reset the future evolution
of the planet's biota."
-- National Academy of Sciences
Our
aim is to convince the world's leaders that our cities,
towns and villages need to be healthy, safe, just and sustainable.
-- Wally N'Dow
…The
environmental future of the planet is closely linked to
the management of our cities, towns and villages.
…Good environmental governance requires good urban governance
and vice versa.
-- Anna Kajumulo Tibaijuka Executive Director of UN-HABITAT
…We
are in the business of promoting a culture of solidarity
and inclusiveness in all human settlements.
Cities will not become liveable places without learning
from the solidarity which is practised in villages where
everyone is provided for, however modestly.
-- Anna Kajumulo Tibaijuka Executive Director of UN-HABITAT
"Without
habitat, there is no wildlife. It's that simple."
- Wildlife Habitat Canada
“The
one process now going on that will take millions of years
to correct
is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction
of natural habitats.
This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive
us.”
-- Edward O. Wilson
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It is upsetting that many people don’t seem to observe
what’s happening to the environment, what’s happening
in terms of global warming, the loss of habitats and
wild things.
-- Joanne
Woodward
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World
Habitat Day - 1st Monday in October
