Quotes About Adaptation

Kugel wondered if in these days of the Internet you would even need a Miep Gies anymore, if you could make it through a genocide these days with just a smartphone and a credit card, and he was hopeful that in the event of another Holocaust, he would have some sort of broadband Internet access.

She had long ago become accustomed to routine, to a life where each day often differed little from the one that had gone before, but this was something new, a mass of time that sat heavily upon her, and that had somehow welded itself unevenly into an unmarked stretch of consciousness.

You're not used to it, are you?

Evolution is fascinating to watch. To me it is the most interesting when one can observe the evolution of a single man.

John had lost his way, his Point B. He needed new strategies for getting to his old goals, or he needed a new Point B. The next

We somehow must become what we are not, sacrificing what we are, to inherit the masquerade of what we will be.

When the affairs of the world change, one should implement a different Way. … Therefore, it is said: "When the people are ignorant, one can become monarch through knowledge; when the generation is knowledgeable, one can become monarch through force".

And new, too. Remade. Ready to move again. Listening was the start, she decided. Doing was the next step.

Think of learning as storing up supplies you may need for a harsh winter.

At least it wasn't raining. It started to rain.

Sometimes things aren't impossible the first time I try, because I don't know they're impossible yet.

I know muckers are the simplest of commoners and becoming a lady's maid is a right honor, but I couldn't give up the wild steppes forever, couldn't turn my back on Mama and all she taught. I feel like a mucker from the ends of my hair to the mud of my bones.

They walked back through the village, and Miri kept her eyes on the ground before her. The whole world had shifted, and she was not sure she could keep her feet. She was her ma alive again. When Miri returned, she found Marda moved

Hey, Mitch," he called after him. "We don't really have to cook our meals on sticks, do we?" Mitch shrugged. "Depends on how badly we piss off the women. Word to the wise, behave yourself on burger night because it's a bitch to keep them on a stick.

In every moment of the day, in the middle of any day, I can become newly engaged with the world. Newly competent. There's so much to discover! I can still become something I am not.

The brain devotes more cortical real estate to functions that its owner uses more frequently and shrinks the space devoted to activities rarely performed. That's why the brains of violinists devote more space to the region that controls the digits of the fingering hand. In response to the actions and experiences of its owner, a brain forges stronger connections in circuits that underlie one behavior or thought and weakens the connections in others.

What if the Ancients used the number of ticks to mark the time of day, instead of the height of the sun or moon? so highmoon could happen here.." "That way highmoon is not the time; highmoon is happening at the different time every night. If you're counting the ticks as time.

You're not flaming Bob the Builder, Poppy. There are some things is you can't fix.

The flowers in the desert which bloomed and died were just different versions of their own small lives.

All is changed, in an instant. It is only left to do the work.

We were no longer a whole, but three separate pieces. A mom. A dad. A kid sliced in half. Actually, that made us four pieces—'cause I have to be two people: Mom's Izzy and Dad's Isabella.

Dense hair on the forearms and legs—the parts of the body usually exposed even with moderate dress—may have been a defense against malaria carried by mosquitoes. With the exception of Africa, where the heat was an evolutionary counterweight to thick body hair, the densest hair is generally found in the same places where malaria is most common—the eastern Mediterranean basin, southern Italy, Greece, and Turkey.

It is better to bow to the dictates of the wind than to try to chase or chain it.

Last time I was watching her, I left her in her crib and when I came back, she was a puppy. Just for a couple of hours, then she was herself again.' I mean, I almost couldn't speak. I said, 'Did it occur to you to tell me this?' And she said, 'Well, I thought it might be a one-time thing. I didn't want to worry you.