Habitat
A preferential habitat is a seabed floor, where there is a relatively smooth bottom enviornment of gravelly sand; an example of this prime habitat is the floor of the Sea of the Hebrides. Sandeels typically burrow in the sand of seabeds to escape from predators.
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“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.”
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