Quotes About Adaptation

Natural selection has designed flowers to communicate with other species, deploying an astonishing array of devices—visual, olfactory, and tactile—to get the attention of specific insects and birds and even certain mammals.

Plants are so unlike people that it's very difficult for us to appreciate fully their complexity and sophistication. Yet plants have been evolving much, much longer than we have

Evolution doesn't depend on will or intention to work; it is, almost by definition, an unconscious, unwilled process.

Every new step in the direction of simplification – toward monoculture, say, ore genetically identical plants – leads to unimaginable new complexities.(intended as challenges)

Claude Lévi-Strauss described the work of civilization as the process of transforming the raw into the cooked—nature into culture.

An alternative food system is rising up on the margins," Joel continued. "One day Frank Perdue and Don Tyson are going to wake up and find that their world has changed. It won't happen overnight, but it will happen, just as it did for those Catholic priests who came to church one Sunday morning only to find that, my goodness, there aren't as many people in the pews today. Where in the world has everybody gone?

Whenever history and culture seem stifling, weeds begin to look good.

A mouse is the size of a mouse for a good reason, and a mouse that was the size of an elephant wouldn't do very well.

Nu am f?cut operaÈ›ia suficient de mult timp pentru ca t?ierea puilor s? devin? o rutin?, dar munca a început s?-mi dea senzaÈ›ia unei proceduri mecanice, iar aceast? senzaÈ›ie, poate mai mult decât oricare alta, m-a tulburat: cât de repede te poÈ›i obiÈ™nui cu orice, îndeosebi atunci când cei din jur nu cred nimic despre ceea ce faci.

Gardening was a subtle process of give and take with the landscape, a search for some middle ground between culture and nature.

Habits are undeniably useful tools, relieving us of the need to run a complex mental operation every time we're confronted with a new task or situation. Yet they also relieve us of the need to stay awake to the world: to attend, feel, think, and then act in a deliberate manner.

De fapt, chiar È™i cei mai fervenÈ›i adepÈ›i ai alimentelor locale spun c? este în regul? o "cump?n? a alimentelor" (un termen specific unui lanÈ› trofic local, care face o analogie cu "cump?na apelor"), fiind permis? achiziÈ›ia bunurilor care nu se pot produce local - cafea, ceai, zah?r, ciocolat? -, o practic? ce precede globalizarea hranei noastre cu câteva mii de ani. (Fir-ar s? fie!)

Unlike these other states of consciousness, ordinary waking consciousness has been optimized by natural selection to best facilitate our everyday survival.

bacteria can swap genes and pieces of DNA among themselves, picking them up and dropping them almost as if they were tools. This capability is especially handy when a new toxin or food source appears in the environment. The microbiota can swiftly find precisely the right gene needed to fight it—or eat it.

Too often, the music business allowed third-party companies to innovate for us - and that simply does not work anymore.

Every training session, I try to simulate the conditions similar to where I am racing.

In jazz, you listen to what the bass player is doing and what the drummer is doing, what the pianist and the guitarist is doing, and then you play something that compliments that, so you are thinking simultaneously and thinking ahead.

Change is the only constant. Hanging on is the only sin.

The thing is when you play a character it's the persona you bring across from a book to film, or book to script to film. If I play Frank Sinatra, there's gonna be things I do in a movie that Frank might not have done, but it's the personality that comes across.

As an entertainer, Justin Timberlake has learned from the past. He can cradle a mic stand like Elvis Presley, move like Michael Jackson, and swoon like Frank Sinatra.

When pop and rock were taking over from jazz, and Sinatra was covering a Beatles song, it was all very new. I get to come at it from a different direction.

When Sinatra was alive and singing, he was constantly changing orchestrators from one album to the next because he said he didn't want every record to sound like every other record.

Since we all have different cognitive profiles, educators should take those individual differences very seriously.

Let us never forget this: since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of the defense of England you no longer think of the chalk cliffs of Dover; you think of the Rhine. That is where our frontier lies.