Quotes About Adaptation

The rule that surpasses all rules is that you must be connected, willing to see what's in front of you, and willing to move if what you're doing isn't working.

the most reliable predictor of long-term marital success was a pattern in which the wives, in nonoffensive, clear ways, communicated their needs, and husbands willingly altered their behaviors to meet them.

The sun shines different ways in summer and winter. We shine different ways in the seasons of our lives.

Weather is a great metaphor for life — sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad, and there's nothing much you can do about it but carry an umbrella.

Cockroaches really put my "all creatures great and small" creed to the test.

Bob and Lyn set Steve on the path he traveled in life. What was incredible about Steve was how much he made it his own. He took the example of his parents and ran with it.

DOWN A PEG (OR TWO) Humbled. An admiral flew his personal standard at the highest point of the mast, attached by rope to one of a series of pegs at its base. If a more senior admiral came aboard, the original standard would be taken down a peg or two to make room for the new flag. DRESSING

I've given up asking questions. l merely float on a tsunami of acceptance of anything life throws at me ... and marvel stupidly.

Necessity might be the mother of invention, but restriction is the mother of efficiency.

the rules had been changed

A newt?" "I got better.

faster not because of how powerfully they stroke but because of how slippery they make their bodies.

Energy never dies, Mr. Jackson," the monster reminded Paul. "It just changes into something new.

I'd rather be a rising ape than a falling angel.

For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.

What our ancestors would really be thinking, if they were alive today, is: "Why is it so dark in here?"

God, it's like reality's completely shifted on me. I used to think I was standing on such solid ground. If I wanted something badly enough, I just worked like hell for it. Now I can't decide what to do, which move to make. All the things I counted on aren't there for me anymore.

And it's surprising how quickly you can get used to being loved

We'll to the woods no more,The laurels all are cut.

Pleasure has turned into habit much more quickly than I should have ever thought possible.

303]No doubt my reader wonders how cats and rats, two races so hostile to each other, and the one of which is the prey of the other, can manage to live together. The fact is that mine got on wonderfully harmoniously together. The cats were good as gold to the rats, which had lost all fear of them.

The best hunters are not those with a natural aptitude for hunting, but those who have had to struggle long and hard to learn every trick of the trade.

To be predictable is to become the hunted.

Life is a river,' he once told me, 'and we all have to find a boat that floats.