Quotes About Adaptation

All the beautiful plants that once had an entire sun porch for themselves in the home she had exchanged thirty years of her life to pay for would now have to fight for light on a crowded windowsill.

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn but to unlearn.

If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?

What was so wrong about the old me that now I have to be somebody else?

That Mesozoic mama's boy wouldn't have lasted five seconds in the Cretaceous period.

You're like crabgrass! Every time I turn around, you're on another part of the lawn!

Mr. Kermit has a flip phone that's probably as old as his car. There are smart phones and dumb phones. His is a rock.

Children parented in such a manner never come up against the necessary frustration that accompanies facing the impossible. They are deprived of the experience of transforming frustration into feelings of futility, of letting go and adapting.

Reality is something the human race doesn't handle very well.

A scientist can hardly encounter anything more desirable than, just as a work is completed, to have its foundation give way.

It's all going the way it's supposed to be going Otherwise, it would be going some other way." —SANDY HARPER, 1978

International politics is not unlike the jungle: smaller and weaker animals require acute intelligence, sensitive antennae, and nimbleness of footing to assure their own self-preservation; the strong—such as elephants—need pay less attention to ambient conditions and can often do as they wish, and others will get out of the way.

Old and cherished ideas die hard.

People change,' she said 'Oh, no they don't. Look at me. I've never changed. It's like those sticks of rock: bite it all the way down, you'll still read Brighton. That's human nature.

He had stylized himself--life was easier that way. He had chosen a physical mould just as writer chooses a technical form.

The more bare a life is, the more we fear change.

The more unstable life is the less one likes the small details to alter.

When you feel unable to change your bar you have become old.

Sometimes it's easier to cut your coat to fit the cloth than lie on the bed you've made.

You should dream more, Mr Wormold. Reality in our century is not something to be faced.' 2

One can go back to one's own home after a year's absence and immediately the door closes it is as if one had never been away. Or one can go back after a few hours and everything is so changed that one is a stranger.

Presumably she had an idea--women were appallingly practical: they built new plans at once out of the ruins of the old.

Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

Rats are highly intelligent creatures. If we find out anything new about the human body we experiment on rats. Rats indeed are ahead of us indisputably in one respect - they live underground. We only began to live underground during the last war. Rats have understood the danger of surface life for thousands of years. When the atom bomb falls the rat will survive.