Quotes About Adaptation

confidently. "You can see almost the whole of it from here, can't you? The whole world. You can see how it's changed. And a different world"—she took a moment to gaze into each Pack member's eyes—"needs a different kind of dog.

It'll be easier for her to travel with the kits inside her belly than outside," he meowed matter-of-factly.

No." Bluestar allowed a gleam of amusement to soften her eyes. "You are still warriors. A leaf cannot return to the bud. But you will live as apprentices until I think you have learned your lesson.

Stormkit and Featherkit thrived, eventually taking the warrior names Stormfur and Feathertail

I don't know," he mewed. "But we'll get used to it. You can get used to anything." There was a grimness to his mew that filled Sunbeam with foreboding. Rootspring was younger than her, but he sounded a lifetime older. Had losing Bristlefrost made him like this? Or did the Dark Forest have that effect on every cat who set paw there?

Goosefeather padded to a smooth silver birch and started tearing off strips of the bark with deft claws.

His eyesight wasn't as keen as it had been, but he knew a changing mind when he saw it.

Keep in mind that people change, but the past doesn't.

Or, if you decide you want to sleep at my place, on opposite sides of my bedroom with a Do Not Cross line drawn down the middle, I'll do it. I won't like it, but I'll do it.

Every time you go in, it's like starting over. You don't know how you did the other records. You're learning all over. It's some weird musician amnesia, or maybe the road wipes it out.

I use the words you taught me. If they don't mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.

Life is a joke. The only way to survive it is to find the right punchline.

Technology is not a form of robotics but something very human: the creation of tools and techniques that answer certain uses in our lives.

Technology is the art of the possible.

Here's a quick translation: spork = a spoon with added tines; splayd = a knife, fork, and spoon in one, consisting of a tined spoon with a sharpened edge; knork = a fork with the cutting power of a knife; spife = a spoon with a knife on the end (an example would be the plastic green kiwi spoons sold in kitchenware shops); sporf = an all-purpose term for any hybrid of spoon, fork, and knife.

Technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral." This is certainly true in the kitchen. Tools are not neutral objects. They change with changing social context. A mortar and pestle was a different thing for the Roman slave forced to pound up highly amalgamated mixtures for hours on end for his master's enjoyment than it is for me: a pleasing object with which I make pesto for fun, on a whim.

Most of our problems with eating come down to the fact that we have not yet adapted to the new realities of plenty, either biologically or psychologically.

Flavour principles change. Diets change. And the people eating these diets also change.

It turns out that wherever we are from, people are capable of altering not just what they eat but what they want to eat and their behaviour when eating.

We often overattribute efficiency to the technologies we are accustomed to.

But we haven't paid anything like enough attention to another consequence of being omnivores, which is that eating is not something we are born instinctively knowing how to do, like breathing. It is something we learn.

What we forget is that, as omnivores, we are extremely gifted at changing the way we eat to accommodate different environments.

We need new eating methods to take account of the new ways we are being supplied with food.

It may not feel like it, but you never lost your potential to change how you eat. The wonderful secret of being an omnivore is that we can adjust our desires, even late in the game. It won't happen on the first bite.