Quotes About Adaptation

I would love to speak a foreign language but I can't. So I grew hair under my arms instead.

Every perfect traveller always creates the country where he travels.

Usually speaking the worst-bred person in company is a young traveller just returned from abroad.

When you travel remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.

Ever eat a pine tree? Many parts are edible.

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.

From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo

We did not come to remain whole. We came to lose our leaves like the trees, Trees that start again.

The tree on the mountain takes whatever the weather brings. If it has any choice at all, it is in putting down roots as deeply as possible."---Each New Day

Playing against a defensive opponent is just as bad as making love to a tree.

If your ancestors cut down all the trees, it's not your fault, but you still don't live in a forest.

A human being sheds its leaves like a tree. Sickness prunes it down; and it no longer offers the same silhouette to the eyes which loved it, to the people to whom it afforded shade and comfort.

The weakness of most men they do not know how to become a stone or tree.

Trees acquire strength by growing slowly and flexing with the pressures of nature. Us too.

We do not make beams from the hollow, decaying trunk of the fallen oak. We use the upsoaring tree in the full vigor of its sap.

What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises.

From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.

You can cut down a tree with a hammer, but it takes about 30 days. If you trade the hammer for an ax, you can cut it down in about 30 minutes. The difference between 30 days and 30 minutes is skills.

Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.

David Nugent tore up the Championship but he's gone to Portsmouth and he's a fish up a tree

However long it stays in the river the tree-trunk will never turn into a crocodile.

I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.

A tree that cannot bend will crack in the wind. Thus by nature's own decree, the soft and gentle are triumphant.

Take a lesson from the trees, watch the way they bend with each breeze, little victories.