Word: habitat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...field trip to the Museum of Natural History. You all gathered around some billion-year-old fossil or stood dwarfed beneath a terrifying representation of a brontosaurus, or marvelled at a taxidermist's conception of an extinct dodo bird perched in an artist's conception of its natural habitat while your teacher recited something about the Jurassic Period. And you trotted from exhibit to exhibit, awed and thrilled by them...
...amusing and informative illustrations for his theme. In the essay that gives the book its title, he describes a thumb-like appendage on a panda's paw that helps it strip the leaves from bamboo shoots, a panda's favorite meal. The depiction of the panda in its natural habitat typifies the light yet information-filled passages that make this book eminently readable for the non-scientist...
Another liberal group surprised by Reagan's policies was California's environmentalists. Reagan had protested that "there seems to be an organized, well-financed lobby that is determined to preserve the natural habitat and comfort of every species except man." But he established an air-resources board and gave it ample power to enforce stiff antipollution standards. He signed smog control laws more stringent than federal requirements. His rigid water pollution controls angered leaders of industry. He set aside an additional 145,000 acres of park lands, including 41 miles of expensive ocean front. He blocked a reservoir...
...Abruptly, he rejects her, and she goes offstage to punctuate her life with a revolver shot. Her desolated husband turns to Cherkoon and asks, "What have you done? What have you done?" The unspoken answer is that the engineers have done what barbarians always do - destroy people, destroy their habitat, destroy their way of life...
...Some habitat owners with older properties, like Jim Franks of Santa Cruz, Calif., leave all their fruit and berries for their wild guests-which may include such nonfriends as skunks and snakes. "What the hell," says one wildlife friend, paraphrasing Robert Frost: "The land was theirs before it was ours...