Quotes About Adaptation

We do not know the future, but we can work toward the best possible outcome.

How could life change so much so quickly?

My dear, if you insist on spending so much time among humans, you will start thinking like them.

Change, it is the wine of life.

Life had been thrust onto him brutally and without warming; the needed time to digest its newness.

This man looked like Khaster yet in many ways he was entirely dissimilar. If any thing, this was what Khaster should always have been: tougher, more humorous.

The world will not end after this, but change.

Strangely enough, I saw our roles the other way around las time. I was the great magician and you were the poetic bard. But Taropat has changed that. I accept it willingly.

Humans had to make do with what they could.

What happened to me is not uncommon here.

We create ourselves constantly.

Our roles should be reversed. You'd thrive on this.

They were the poorest, grubbiest people I had even seen, and yet, despite their obvious poverty, they were not at all melancholy or apathetic. They burgeoned like a colony of ants in the gargantuan skeleton of the past, shifting rubbish, recycling everything, conjuring a new art from the bones.

It is better to learn than to know, because even when you know, you cannot always live by it.

You are different, Daniel, but then this is a changed world to the one where we once walked as friends.

Yet the biosphere constructs itself, evolves, and has persisted for 3.8 billion years.

The biosphere explodes in diversity, creating more and more cracks in the floor of Darwin's nature until the cracks, ever expanding, become the very floor of nature, and nature herself.

Yesterday's deconstructions are often tomorrow's orthodox clichés.

If you don't change, reality in the end forces that change upon you.

The new idea is here: Control is very old-fashioned, and our societies will change gradually as people come to see that the old system just doesn't work. I

I'm being uprooted," Dino said. "You're being transplanted," Viv replied, "and to a better home.

I don't know what the world is coming to," she said sadly. "In my day select people—secret agents, hired guns, Girl Scouts who expected to sell their cookies without getting raped—were taught to kill with a single thumb." "Were you a Girl Scout?" Stone asked. "Of course. How do you think I know this stuff?

As to whether Marcos is gay: Marcos is gay in San Francisco, black in South Africa, an Asian in Europe, a Chicano in San Ysidro, an anarchist in Spain, a Palestinian in Israel, a Mayan Indian in the streets of San Cristobal,… a Jew in Germany, a Gypsy in Poland, a Mohawk in Quebec, a pacifist in Bosnia, a single woman on the Metro at 10pm, a peasant without land, a gang member in the slums, an unemployed worker, an unhappy student and, of course, a Zapatista in the mountains.

The only mistake is to not learn from a mistake.