
“When I got my first commission after Habitat, for a few weeks I couldn't draw.”
CBC television interview, used for many years in CBC Montreal's sign-on montage
A collection of quotes on the topic of habitat, nature, species, human.
“When I got my first commission after Habitat, for a few weeks I couldn't draw.”
CBC television interview, used for many years in CBC Montreal's sign-on montage
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ifi5KkXig3s "Biblical Series IV: Adam and Eve: Self-Consciousness, Evil, and Death"
Viktor Schauberger: Our Senseless Toil (1934)
The Philomath Speaks An Interview with Anu Garg (Dec 15, 2009) http://www.nas.org/articles/The_Philomath_Speaks_An_Interview_with_Anu_Garg
On captive elephants, as quoted in "Indian minister's elephant alert" http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/780015.stm, BBC (6 June 2000)
1991-2000
Progress, Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom (1968), Dangers, Pollution of Environment
Source: The Interpretation of Cultures (1973), p. 45
Source: Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms (1998) Triumph of the Root-Heads, p. 355
On his conservation principles.
Interview interview (1995)
"William McDonough: Godfather of Green", WNYC Studio 360 (18 March 2008).
Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History (2016)
Two in the Bush (1966)
p 21, describing his father
Achieving The Impossible (2010)
Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1990/jun/19/abolition-of-deer-hunting in the House of Commons (19 June 1990).
1990s
Vanna Bonta Talks Sex in Space (Interview - Femail magazine)
"Is Diversity Driving A Decline in White Population?" http://www.wnd.com/2018/04/the-decline-of-u-s-whites-and-not-just-in-number/ WND, April 19, 2018
2010s, 2018
“Infinite product spaces are the natural habitat of probability theory.”
Source: An Introduction To Probability Theory And Its Applications (Third Edition), Chapter V, Conditional Probability, Stochastic Independence, p. 130
1960s, The Quest for Peace and Justice (1964)
Kenneth Minogue in National Review, November 18, 1991, cited in: fortnightlyreview.co.uk http://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/2013/07/quick-define-quadratic-equation/, 2013/07
The Natural West: Environmental History in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains (2003)
"Only Then Shall We Find Courage", New York Times Magazine (23 June 1946).
1940s
"The Curious Case of America's Waning Whites" http://dailycaller.com/2016/12/08/the-curious-case-of-americas-waning-whites/ The Daily Caller, December 8, 2016
2010s, 2016
How Many People Can Live on Planet Earth? (BBC Horizon, 2009)
Reviewing "Tocata" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a940h3-1NV0 from Brazilliance; as quoted in "Clare Fischer: Blindfold Test" http://www.mediafire.com/view/fix6ane8h54gx/Clare_Fischer#rjvay58eo774rhe
As quoted by Michio Kaku in Hyperspace (Oxford University Press, 1994), p. 12. ISBN 0-385-47705-8.
p, 125
Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History (2016)
Wolves: Behavior, Ecology and Conservation (2003)
"The Theory and Practice of Regionalism" in The Sociological Review, vol. 20, nos. 1 and 2, 1928.
The Stationary Ark (1976)
"Alice Shrugged," http://www.bigheadpress.com/lneilsmith/?p=51 18 December 2008.
Part IV: Personal and Philosophical Essays, Ch. 24 : "The World, the Flesh, and the Devil" (1972)
The Scientist As Rebel (2006)
Context: I have to clear away a few popular misconceptions about space as a habitat … It is generally considered that planets are important. Except for Earth, they are not. Mars is waterless, and the others are, for various reasons, basically inhospitable to man. It is generally considered that beyond the sun’s family of planets there is absolute emptiness extending for light-years until you come to another star. In fact, it is likely that the space around the solar system is populated by huge numbers of comets, small worlds a few miles in diameter, rich in water and the other chemicals essential to life.
Edinburgh University Union (1969)
The Environmental Revolution: Speeches on Conservation, 1962–77 (1978)
Context: The sheer weight of numbers of the human population, our habitations, our machinery and our ruthless exploitation of the living and organic resources of the earth; together these are changing our whole environment. This is what we call progress and much of this development is naturally to the direct and welcome benefit of mankind. However, we cannot at the same time ignore the awkward consequences and the most direct and menacing, but not the only consequence of this change, is pollution... Pollution is a direct outcome of man's ruthless exploitation of the earth's resources. Experience shows that the growth of successful organic populations is eventually balanced by the destruction of its own habitat. The vast man-made deserts show that the human population started this process long ago. There are two important differences today. In the first place the process has gone from a walking pace to a breakneck gallop. Secondly we know exactly what is happening. If not exactly in all cases, we know enough to appreciate what is happening and the need to take care... Pollution is no longer a matter of local incidents, today it has the whole biosphere in its grip. The processes which devastated the Welsh valleys a hundred years ago are now at work, over, on and under the earth and the oceans. Even if we bury all this waste underground there still remains the risk that toxic materials through chemical reactions will be washed out and into underground water courses. If ever there was an area of research more closely related to human welfare it is the problem of the safe disposal of waste and effluents... The fact is that we have got to make a choice between human prosperity on the one hand and the total well-being of the planet Earth on the other. Even then it is hardly a choice because if we only look for human prosperity we shall certainly destroy by pollution the earth and the human population which has existed on it for millions of years... If the world pollution situation is not critical at the moment it is as certain as anything can be that the situation will become increasingly intolerable within a very short time. The situation can be controlled and even reversed but it demands co-operation on a scale and intensity beyond anything achieved so far... I realise that there are any number of vital causes to be fought for, I sympathise with people who work up a passionate concern about the all too many examples of inhumanity, injustice, and unfairness, but behind all this hangs a really deadly cloud. Still largely unnoticed and unrecognised, the process of destroying our natural environment is gathering speed and momentum. If we fail to cope with this challenge, all the other problems will pale into insignificance.
Who were the Shudras? (1946)
" The Antispeciesist Revolution https://ieet.org/index.php/IEET2/more/pearce20130726", Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, 26 Jul. 2013
" Predators: A Response https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/28/predators-a-response/", The New York Times, 28 Sept. 2010
Source: Killing History: The False Left-Right Political Spectrum and the Battle between the ‘Free Left’ and the ‘Statist Left', (2019), p. 96
Source: A love story for the coral reef crisis https://www.ted.com/talks/ayana_elizabeth_johnson_a_love_story_for_the_coral_reef_crisis (April 2019)
Source: Ladybirds: an interview with Helen Roy, Ecological Entomologist at the BRC https://www.nhbs.com/blog/ladybirds-helen-roy (14 May 2013)
"Matt Gaetz’s Claim That Migrants Are Killing Monarch Butterflies Is Utter Bullsh*t" https://www.thedailybeast.com/matt-gaetzs-claim-that-migrants-are-killing-monarch-butterflies-is-utter-bullsht, The Daily Beast, 26 July 2022