source: "Karl Pilkington On 'An Idiot Abroad,' Endangered Animals & Ricky Gervais (VIDEO)". Interview with Jordan Zakarin, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 20, 2012.

topic: People, Worry, Bears, Polar Bears

Don't buy society’s definition of success. Because it’s not working for anyone. It’s not working for women, it's not working for men, it's not working for polar bears, it's not working for the cicadas that are apparently about to emerge and swarm us. It’s only truly working for those who make pharmaceuticals for stress, sleeplessness and high blood pressure.

- Arianna Huffington

source: Arianna Huffington's Commencement Address at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, www.smith.edu. May 19, 2013.

topic: Graduation, Stress, Heart, Cicadas, Polar Bears

A lot of the time, because of the polar bears you're not allowed to go outside the door without your hunting rifle, even if it's to go to the local shop. The polar bears will come from nowhere, and you'll be eaten alive.

- Richard Dormer

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Hunting, Doors, Bears, Polar Bears

I am supposed to take the bullets and absorb them. Like a bear, a polar bear.

- Arsene Wenger

source: "Arsène Wenger keeps faith with Arsenal's training methods" by Jamie Jackson, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2011.

topic: Football, Bullets, Bears, Polar Bears

What do we talk about? Just ordinary things. What happened today, or books we've read, or tomorrow's weather, you know. Don't tell me you're wondering if people jump to their feet and shout stuff like 'It'll rain tomorrow if a polar bear eats the stars tonight!

- Haruki Murakami

source: Haruki Murakami (2011). “Norwegian Wood”, p.140, Random House

topic: Stars, Rain, Book, Polar Bears

I don't want to be buried in the ground, rotting, with all those worms. What I would love is to have my body dropped where you have those big icebergs and the water is so cold and pure, to be eaten by a polar bear or a seal or an otter.

- Jean-Claude Van Damme

topic: Love Is, Otters, Water, Seals, Iceberg

And when I'm on the microphone you best to wear your sweater, Cause I'm cooler than a polar bear's toenails, Oh hell, there he go again.

- Big Boi

topic: Rap, Sweaters, Causes, Polar Bears, Toenails

I'm very pessimistic about the future of the human species. We have been so indifferent to life on the whole that it will take its toll. It's not just the polar bears that are having a hard time; what we're doing is gradually impoverishing and poisoning the whole of the rest of life.

- W. S. Merwin

source: "An Interview with W. S. Merwin, Poet Laureate". Interview with Ed Rampell, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. October 25, 2010.

topic: Hard Times, Rest Of Life, Tolls, Polar Bears, Having A Hard Time

It's Earth Day today. Let me tell you something about polar bears. They're endangered but you have to be careful because a polar bear is one of the few animals that will stalk a human. If you go to where polar bears live, it might stalk you and when you're on the plane going home, it might be behind you reading.

- Craig Ferguson

topic: Reading, Home, Animal, Going Home, Polar Bears

If some of our teenage thrill seekers really want to go out and get a thrill, let them go up into the Northwest and tangle with the Grizzly Bear, the Polar Bear, and the Brown Bear. They will get their kicks, and it will cleanse their souls.

- Fred Bear

topic: Teenage, Soul, Thrill, Grizzly Bears, Grizzlies

I haven't been to Tasmania. I haven't been to the South Pole, and I haven't been to the North Pole. I want to see the polar bear migration before there are no polar bears. I want to see Glacier National Park before the glacier melts.

- Martha Stewart

topic: Migration, Parks, Glaciers, Tasmania, Polar Bears

I guess even the prettiest things eventually end up stinking. Everything does. We all will die and rot and decay and be reborn as dirt or flowers or worms, or polar bears who will drown because their ice is all melting, or presidents of war-torn countries, or whales swimming around acidifying seas. And then we will rot and decay again. And so it goes.

- Jaimal Yogis

source: Jaimal Yogis (2009). “Saltwater Buddha: A Surfer's Quest to Find Zen on the Sea”, p.231, Simon and Schuster

topic: Country, War, Flower, Prettiest, Polar Bears

In the year 2007, seals, otters, lions, turtles, frogs, apes, snakes, butterflies, polar bears, cheetahs, whales are disappearing along with their variously furnished homes: cloud forests, rain forests, ice pack, boreal forests, coral reefs, forests of deciduous trees, conifer and palm.

- Eban Goodstein

topic: Rain, Butterfly, Home, Otters, Polar Bears

I'm cooler than a polar bear's toenails... bend corners like I was a curve, I struck a nerve.

- Big Boi

topic: Curves, Nerves, Toenails, Polar Bears

My parents say it all began with my role of Percy the Polar Bear back in nursery school! I began dance classes at the age of five (you would never guess though) and then I went on to join my local theatre group, Glantawe Players, at the age of eight and then Swansea Amateur Dramatics Society. I then joined the National Youth Music Theatre, so I really can't remember a time when I wasn't interested in Musical Theatre!

- Francesca Jackson

source: Source: www.broadwayworld.com

topic: School, Player, Class, Dance Class, Musical Theatre

...I think we should find some kind of shelter; a cave or something." "I don't want to do that! What if there's like, a creature living in the cave?" Tiara said. "Seriously, I saw this show once where these people were stranded on an island and there were these other people who were sort of crazy-slash-bad and there was this polar bear creature running around." "What happened?" Miss Ohio asked. "I don't know. My parents got divorced in the middle of season two and we lost our TiVo.

- Libba Bray

topic: Running, Crazy, Thinking, Stranded, Polar Bears

For the West, the enemy was not "socialism" but capitalism. How to tame and subdue the polar bear, how to take over the talent, the science, the technology, how to buy out the human capital, how to acquire the intellectual property rights?

- Michel Chossudovsky

source: "The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order". Book by Michel Chossudovsky, 2003.

topic: Technology, Rights, Enemy, Polar Bears

The only place Al Gore conserves energy these days is on the treadmill. I don't want to suggest that Al's getting big, but the last time I saw him on TV I thought, "That reminds me - we have to do something about saving the polar bears." Never mind his carbon footprint - have you seen the size of Al Gore's regular footprint lately? It's almost as deep as Janet Reno's.

- Ann Coulter

source: "The coming ass age". townhall.com. March 21, 2007.

topic: Carbon Footprint, Mind, Want, Polar Bears

Scientists are also unnerved by the summer's implications for the future...proof that human activities are propelling a slide toward climate calamity...humans may have tipped the balance...a particularly harsh jolt to polar bears.

- Andrew Revkin

topic: Summer, Balance, Energy, Polar Bears

Every day, TV, newspapers, and the Internet bombard us with a message that we're destroying the earth. Ice caps are melting, rivers are dying, polar bears are drowning, and trees are doing something.

- Penn Jillette

topic: Ice, Rivers, Tree, Destroying The Earth, Polar Bears

The biblical account of Noah's Ark and the Flood is perhaps the most implausible story for fundamentalists to defend. Where, for example, while loading his ark, did Noah find penguins and polar bears in Palestine?

- Judith Hayes

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Life, Noah's Ark, Polar Bears

It was some UN agency that issued a report saying we're beyond the point of return here. And there was a picture of a polar bear on a little, tiny block of ice, which is a fraudulent - there are more polar bears than ever. The arctic ice caps are not melting. There's so much garbage out there.

- Rush Limbaugh

source: Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

topic: Block, Agency, Ice, Polar Bears

Father was afraid of laughter and joy. He was particularly afraid of ridicule. He was afraid that someone would say that humans are descended from apes. Or that the earth is much older than four thousand years. Or that someone would ask where Noah go his polar bears from. Or that someone would swear. Father was terrified.

- Guus Kuijer

source: Guus Kuijer (2012). “The Book of Everything”, p.77, Scholastic Inc.

topic: Laughter, Fear, Father, Polar Bears, Laughter And Joy

Another way to test hypotheses about adaptation is to consider trait variation across a group of species instead of focusing on the trait of a single species. Rather than seeking to explain why polar bears have fur of a certain thickness, one tries to explain why bears in colder climates have thicker fur than bears in warmer climates. The former problem is hard to solve, since it is hard to say exactly what fur thickness polar bears should have if natural selection guided the evolution of that trait.

- Elliott Sober

topic: Should Have, Trying, Tests, Thickness, Polar Bears

Last night, we did the Threatdown -- God, it's hard to even talk about this -- and for the first time, I didn't mention bears. It's winter, they're asleep, I didn't think it would be a problem. But today I see this in the Toronto Globe and Mail -- apparently a 700-pound polar bear showed up at a children's hockey game. I've said this before, they're after our kids -- they're tender, juicy, you don't even have to throw away the bones.

- Stephen Colbert

topic: Children, Kids, Hockey, Polar Bears

When we save the rain forest, the polar bear, and Al Gore, we should party so hard that Canada calls the cops on us for noise.

- Paula Poundstone

topic: Party, Rain, Noise, Polar Bears, Blood And Gore

My relationship to the desecration of the earth was very theoretical and intellectual until I got sick. I could never watch anything about polar bears dying or the death of bees. There were certain things I knew I couldn't go near because they were too devastating. But I don't think until I got cancer did I get it in my body, what was happening to the earth. I finally went: "Oh! Earth! Organism!"

- Eve Ensler

source: "The Big Idea: Eve Ensler". Interview with Suzanne Koven, therumpus.net. June 12, 2013.

topic: Cancer, Thinking, Sick, Polar Bears

Well, my son really loves wildlife. And everytime he draws a polar bear I want to tell him there probably won't any by the time... he's my age. That's kinda hard to deal with.

- Thom Yorke

topic: Son, Age, Want, Polar Bears, Environmental Stewardship

Dane was shaking his head firmly. "Don't bring it here, Ella. No babies." I gave him a dark look. "What if it were a baby polar bear or a baby Galapagos penguin? I bet you'd want it then." "I'd make an exception for endangered species," he allowed. "This baby is endangered. It's with my mother.

- Lisa Kleypas

source: Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.183, St. Martin's Press

topic: Mother, Baby, Dark, Polar Bears, Endangered Species

Nobody recognizes that a bookstore or library can also be a drowning polar bear. And in this country [US], magazines, newspapers, and bookstores are drowning polar bears. And if people can't see that or don't want to talk about it, I don't understand them at all.

- Sherman Alexie

topic: Country, People, Library, Polar Bears

The CIA’s resources should be focused on monitoring terrorists in caves – not polar bears on icebergs.

- John Barrasso

source: "Barrasso wants hearings on CIA's climate change work" by Ben Geman, thehill.com. January 5, 2010.

topic: Caves, Bears, Resources, Polar Bears

Listing the polar bear under the Endangered Species Act could harm bear conservation efforts by eliminating revenues from the carefully-regulated sport hunting of polar bears by Americans and the importation of polar bear meat and trophies into the U.S. As hunting by non-Americans would replace hunting by Americans, nothing would be accomplished in terms of reducing the number of polar bears killed, but the revenue currently generated by American sport hunters for conservation and research efforts would be eliminated.

- Amy Ridenour

topic: Sports, Hunting, Numbers, Importation, Endangered Species Act

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