Quotes About Adaptation

A man is getting old when he walks around a puddle instead of through it.

Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned.

The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.

Mother Nature is wonderful. Children get too old for piggy-back rides just about the same time they get too heavy for them.

You can't exist with nature without patience because everything in nature happens with such an easy, flowing manner. You get out of step, and you miss it. It's gone.

When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum.

In the nineteenth century, among other things, they didn't have telephones. You can become the victim of telephones. That's why I hate talking on the phone. Sometimes I put it in the refrigerator.

When you leave New York, you are merely camping out.

Poetry is never abandoned, it is only remixed.

Couldn't you play better tennis with the net down?

Medical History & Future. — A Short History of Medicine: 2000 B.C. – "Here, eat this root." 1000 B.C. – "That root is heathen, say this prayer." 1850 A.D. – "That prayer is superstition, drink this potion." 1940 A.D. – "That potion is snake oil, swallow this pill." 1985 A.D. – "That pill is ineffective, take this antibiotic." 2000 A.D. – "That antibiotic is artificial. Here, eat this root."

Writing with Scissors (collecting, note-keeping, remaking)

A man is getting old w'en he walks around a puddle instead of through it.

In the place of roses be a rose, and where there are thorns be a thorn.

Virtually every process is best carried out at one time or other of the year and that is not something to take lightly... There is much more to seasonality, though, than breeding or migration. Virtually every internal process alters... We humans were clearly highly seasonal beasts until the coming of electric light but traces remain.

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

You may never get rid of the butterflies, but you can teach them how to fly in formation.

If riding in an airplane is flying, then riding in a boat is swimming. If you want to experience the element, then get out of the vehicle.

When the people look like ants — pull, When the ants look like people — pray.

The most damaging phrase in the language is: "It's always been done that way."

The Year of the Rat

I have crossed an ocean I have lost my tongue from the root of the old one a new one has sprung

All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad, or peculiar.

Na catinga ele às vezes cantava de galo, mas na rua encolhia-se.