Quotes About Adaptation

It is not accidental that all phenomena of human life are dominated by the search for daily bread - the oldest link connecting all living things, man included, with the surrounding nature.

The ocean is a supreme metaphor for change. I expect the unexpected but am never fully prepared.

The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take a squirrel living in New York now. That squirrel is being influenced by all past squirrels.

Take any path you like; follow any prophet you like; but have only that method which suits your own nature, so that you will be sure to progress.

Nature is a tinkerer, not an inventor.

In a pond koi can reach lengths of eighteen inches. Amazingly, when placed in a lake, koi can grow to three feet long. The metaphor is obvious. You are limited by how you see the world.

Civilization is only a series of victories against nature.

I'm so not stylish by nature, but I've learned to work with what I have.

Let nature take its course and your tools will strike at the right moment.

Whatever Nature has in store for mankind, unpleasant as it may be, men must accept, for ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Nature laughs at the difficulties of integration.

Instead of trying to modify what nature brought us, we embraced it.

Nature does not compromise; a pelican is not a compromise between a crow and otter, it is just a pelican. Nature makes no compromises; any inefficient products are recalled to the manufacturer!

Observe always that everything is the result of a change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and to make new ones like them.

Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature.

One thing you cannot control is nature.

Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive.

Man prides himself on being the only animal who can modify his nature, yet when he chooses to do so he is called a phony.

We cannot teach a flower how to grow, we can only learn from it.

It is Jazz's very nature to change, to develop & adapt to the circumstances of its environment.

We're constantly changing and any practice meant to serve our authenticity should reflect our fluid nature.

The person who can freely acknowledge that life is full of difficulties can be free, because they are acknowledging the nature of life - that it can't be much else.

When we work with nature instead of trying to impose our will, the solution is often found within the problem.

There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile. Permanence is but a word of degrees.