Quotes About Adaptation

And it explains why human beings have always been peripatetic, moving to wherever they can make the best lives. Roots are for trees; people have feet.

To appreciate this burden, one doesn't have to believe that we are cavemen out of time, only that evolution, with its speed limit measured in generations, could not possibly have adapted our brains to modern technology and institutions

If we keep track of how our laws and manners are doing, think up ways to improve them, try them out, and keep the

The geometry of beauty is the visible signal of adaptively valuable objects: safe, food-rich, explorable, learnable habitats, and fertile, healthy dates, mates, and babies.

Racial differences are largely adaptations to climate. Skin pigment was a sunscreen for the tropics, eyelid folds were goggles for the tundra. The parts of the body that face the elements are also the parts that face the eyes of other people, which fools them into thinking that racial differences run deeper than they really do.

For every job lost to automation, a new one will materialize that we cannot anticipate: he unemployed forklift operators will retrain as tattoo removal technicians and video game costume designers and social media content moderators and pet psychiatrists.

Language is re-created every generation as it passes through the minds of the humans who speak it.

Roots are for trees; people have feet

My wife's nagging is like living near the airport. After a while you don't notice it any more.

When we first sort of break in or bust into the house, if you will, there's some tough love.

If you really love something, you never try to keep it the way it is forever. You have to let it be free to change.

Sometimes when you make good stuff and you love it, it gets outdated sometimes, because you've held on to it so long, you may not like it like you used to.

Love is like a reptile, you cut off its tail and it grows another one." Kiss Me Judas

I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster

I love that contradiction of being feminine but playing in the boys' treehouse. My whole life's been like that.

There's something about taking a classic movie that people love and doing another version of that, you're setting yourself up for a mistake.

It's a difficult thing when you try and make a film of a book that you really love. You have about two hours to tell the story, and it's never going to be enough.

Love is always changing and unless we stay aware and change with it, it eludes us.

Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.

You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets.

How I learned to love the New World Order.

But in any situation with long love, I don't think it ever goes away fully. You just sort of learn where to keep it.

Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven?

When I'm not with the one I love, I love the one I'm with.