Quotes About Adaptation

Bred to the pavement and steel that became his life's work, he nonetheless marvels at the annual miracle of baby peregrine falcons hatching high atop the George Washington's towers, and at the sheer botanical audacity of grass, weeds, and ailanthus trees that defiantly bloom, far from topsoil, from metal niches suspended high above the water.

When we're down to eating our ancestors," she asked, "what is left?

You grow based on exploiting strengths, not by acclimating to weaknesses.

Abraham Maslow observed, "When the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

You live, you learn You love, you learn You cry, you learn You lose, you learn You bleed, you learn You scream, you learn

Modern places are made up of layers of incomplete visions of the future, and the result is a permanent state of impermanence.

That morning I'd read that construction workers in London had discovered a young fox living off their leftover sandwiches on the unfinished seventy-second floor of the Shard, the UK's tallest building.

In a fully discovered world exploration does not stop; it just has to be reinvented.

Adapt and survive. Make do and mend. These were good mottos for a time traveller.

Behold, Mr. Clavain: Chasm City. A place I have to come to know and, while not actually love, perhaps not to detest with quite the same missionary zeal as when I first arrived.

We're all Poseidon's children, Geoffrey: whether we like it or not." "Poseidon's children," he repeated. "Is that supposed to mean something?" "We came through. That's all. We weathered the absolute worst that history could throw at us, and we thrived. Now it's time to start doing something useful with our lives.

Let me explain something about survival. You do not worry about the third or fourth stepping stone until you have successfully traversed the first and second. Anything beyond them is a diversion of energies away from the immediate moment.

I've only been on this planet for ten minutes,' I said. 'Already I feel like I've overstayed my welcome.' Purslane looked at me with icy forbearance. 'Work really hard, and maybe next time you can get it down to five.

Only an evolutionary eyeblink separated Kanu from the savannah, and that was just as true for the Risen. Their minds might be fixed on the stars, but their bodies were only a footstep from the dust and heat of Amboseli.

We're still fumbling in the dark, trying to find out how to live on a galactic scale.

Keep trying,' Merlin said. 'Keep making mistakes, and learning from them. That's all any culture ever does.

But one of the truly delightful things about science fiction is that it is far less about new ideas than it is about finding new ways to think about old ones.

Some people feel divorce is an excuse to not compromise. Yes, in life you have to adapt and compromise. But the questions is - when does it stop? How much is too much, how less is too little? That's a personal choice.

When I came to Nashville, my personal life went to hell.

Personal relationships become really hard when you're away from home and long-distance.

I've learned a lot from being a chameleon, sort of adopting the musical personalities of who I was playing with.

The great thing about acting is that you get to be a lot of different things in one lifetime. You get to explore different personalities and characters.

Every audience has a personality. Some of them don't have the best personalities, but you're on a date with them for an hour and a half, so you just make the best of it.