Sylvia Earle

For humans, the Arctic is a harshly inhospitable place, but the conditions there are precisely what polar bears require to survive - and thrive. 'Harsh' to us is 'home' for them. Take away the ice and snow, increase the temperature by even a little, and the realm that makes their lives possible literally melts away.

American Scientist

Brian Greene

When you buy a jacket, you pick the size to ensure it fits. Similarly, we live in a universe in which the amount of dark energy fits our biological make-up. If the amount of dark energy were substantially different from what we've measured, the environmental conditions would be inhospitable to our form of life.

American Physicist

Chris Hadfield

The communities and countries best at using energy to optimize a microclimate for human life are also the ones whose people have the longest average lifespans. Canada, Sweden, and Iceland - places with inhospitable winter weather - are frontrunners in sustaining human health and life.

Canadian Astronaut

Marcus Samuelsson

Egypt is the largest wheat importer in the world. In some part, this is due to irrigation issues and inhospitable climes. Egypt's dependence on wheat is also partially because for decades it has been cheaper to import wheat, corn, soy and barley from the U.S. than to grow it locally.

Ethiopian Chef

Will Poulter

I hate going into the audition room. I find it the most nerve-wracking, inhumane experience, and I think it's such an inhospitable environment to give an honest account of the character and, I guess, your ability.

English Actor

Bear Grylls

My work is all about adventure and teamwork in some of the most inhospitable jungles, mountains and deserts on the planet. If you aren't able to look after yourself and each other, then people die.

British Explorer

Chris Sacca

I've learned that it's often the less obvious, yet pervasive and questionable, everyday behaviors of men in our industry that collectively make it inhospitable for women.

American Businessman

Orison Swett Marden

A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.

American Writer

Ol Parker

You can only shoot in India for three months a year, otherwise it's very inhospitable.

Albert Schweitzer

Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.

German Theologian

Used to describe places difficult for survival due to nature, like deserts or polar regions.

Physical Challenges

Often refers to severe weather making a place hard to live in or visit.

Extreme Weather

Can describe situations or systems that feel difficult or unwelcoming, not just places.

Figurative Use

Used when people are not welcoming or friendly to others, especially guests or strangers.

Social Reject

Implies more than just impoliteness; it's a strong unwelcome or unfriendly behavior.

Not Just Rude

Can refer to the absence of effort to make someone feel at ease in a social setting.

Lack of Comfort

 these environments of our habitats for life so to understand this question it actually requires going back to our own planet set of amazing discoveries over the last few decades has been about life in extreme environments so that is those places on earth that are inhospitable but nevertheless there are organisms

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 The extreme environments of our own world are alien vistas. They're just closer to home. If we can understand how to create and maintain habitable spaces out of hostile, inhospitable spaces here on Earth, perhaps we can meet the needs of both preserving our own environment

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 which creates a double-whammy of cold for the southern pole. But despite being inhospitable, the North and South Pole are a big reason why our planet is the way it is. Both of our polar regions are very important climate controllers. They help moderate the temperature

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 So we found ways to create an inhospitable environment for microbes. For example, making the food more acidic unravels enzymes that microbes need to survive. And some types of bacteria can actually help. For thousands of years, people preserved food using bacteria

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 Each of the six sides is believed to be the result of jet streams, which all encircle a massive hurricane. Because of Saturn's inhospitable environment, the planet cannot support life - but some of its moons might.

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 making it the cornerstone of the galactic economy. And it only grows on the desert planet Arrakis, a dangerous and inhospitable world whose native inhabitants have long rebelled against the empire.

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 And much of this vast universe, much more may be habitable than we once thought, as we study extremophiles on Earth -- organisms that can live in conditions totally inhospitable for us,

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 What moved me the most was that despite these seemingly inhospitable conditions, I was welcomed with open arms into a home that was made with love, care, and unreserved passion.

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 can these birds create a new life in this inhospitable place but making it as exhausted the female she needs to find food she passes the egg to her partner

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 and the videos reveal an array of life hard to imagine in these stark and inhospitable mountains argali wolves ibex bears hares marmot and chuffs

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