Habitat

Habitat

A habitat is an ecological or environmental area that is inhabited by a particular species of animal, plant, or other type of organism. It is the natural environment in which an organism lives, or the physical environment that surrounds (influences and is utilized by) a species population.

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Famous quotes containing the word habitat:

    “Neither moral relations nor the moral law can swing in vacuo. Their only habitat can be a mind which feels them; and no world composed of merely physical facts can possibly be a world to which ethical propositions apply.”
    —William James (1842–1910)

    “Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.”
    —John Dewey (1859–1952)