Human Habitat Quotes

The model of the human habitat dictated by zoning is a formless, soul-less, centerless, demoralizing mess. It bankrupts families and townships. It disables whole classes of decent, normal citizens. It ruins the air we breathe. It corrupts and deadens our spirit.

Houses are like the human beings that inhabit them.

The relationship between man and space is none other than dwelling, strictly thought and spoken.

The earth is yet the place of the domicile of man and all the offspring of the first man.

Mankind which began in a cave and behind a windbreak will end in the disease-soaked ruins of a slum.

The role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited.

In his eyes shone the reflection of the most beautiful planet in the Universe---a planet that is not too hot and not too cold; that has liquid water on the surface and where the gravity is just right for human beings and the atmosphere is perfect for them to breathe; where there are mountains and deserts and oceans and islands and forests and trees and birds and plants and animals and insects and people---lots and lots of people. Where there is life. Some of it, possibly, intelligent.

Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.

But the goal isn't just scientific exploration, ... it's also about extending the range of human habitat out from Earth into the solar system as we go forward in time... In the long run a single-planet species will not survive.

Our earthly ball a peopled garden.

I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here.

If you want to learn about a culture, you look at what buildings the people lived in but you also want to know about their cosmos.

The Earth is a unique system in the universe, the only planet we know of that's hospitable for humankind.