Quotes About Adaptation

He realized that it wouldn't be much longer before the trees picked themselves up and migrated to the warmer south, leaving their dead, leafless brothers behind.

Maybe he should turn around. Go back and tell them that's what life was, a long series of things that didn't go down the way you thought they would. Hell with it. Either they'd figure it out or they wouldn't. Most people never did.

Bombs fall and wipe out civilization as we know it, two things come up out of the ashes: roaches and F-150s.

What'd you need? Desuetude. Reading again, are we? Could be dangerous. It means to become unaccustomed to. As in something gets discontinued, falls into disuse. Thanks, man. That it? Yeah, but we should grab a drink sometime.

What are any of our lives but the shapes we force them into. Memory doesn't come to us of its own; we go after it, pull it into sunlight and make of it what we need, what we're driven towards, what we imagine, changing the world again and again with each new quarry, each descent, each morning.

Every day we reconstruct ourselves out of the salvage of our yesterdays.

There's a time in life when everything becomes ex—ex-athlete, ex-president, expatriate, x-ray.

Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.

On his misfit globe he has outlasted the mammoth and the pterodactyl, but he has never got the upper hand of bacteria and the insects.

It is more dangerous to strong-arm life than to embrace it.

Your brain never stops developing and changing. It's been doing it from the time you were an embryo, and will keep doing it all your life. And this ability, perhaps, represents its greatest strength.

Monuments look static - carved in stone and all - but their meanings change as the present changes and as people enact new rituals at them.

In Cosmides and Tooby's words, "Our modern skulls house a stone age mind."20 They continue: "In many cases, our brains are better at solving the kinds of problems our ancestors faced on the African savannahs than they are at solving the more familiar tasks we face in a college classroom or a modern city.

For example, automobiles kill far more people today than do spiders or snakes. But people are far more averse to spiders and snakes than they are to automobiles. Why? Because in our EEA spiders and snakes were a serious threat to our survival and reproduction, whereas automobiles did not exist. Thus, it was possible—not to mention advantageous for our survival and reproduction—for us to evolve an innate aversion to spiders and snakes, but not to automobiles.

If you close your eyes to facts, you will learn through accidents. ~ African Proverb

If you carry the weather with you, then character is determined by the prevailing wind

Her parents asked for special courses or distance-learning opportunities, but the school refused. It had never been done before, administrators said.

There it was, written down for her to follow: how to take that precocious mind and learn to be like everyone else.

Our Heart is Related with the Nature, Our Thoughts for Surviving

Change wasn't easy, even when life forced change upon you.

metamorphosis

Everyone has to act out of character sometimes. It's like taking your clothes off: you feel free without your character but very naked, unprotected. Unfinished. So you get dressed again- you put on yourself-and then you know who you are.

There is no other way, it seems, in a deciduous world. True evergreenness does not exist: the word is only another term for the ability to overlap the old with the new.

As the past disappears, I keep getting lost.