Quotes About Adaptation

If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture.

Man is by nature restless. When left too long in one place he will inevitably grow bored, unmotivated, and unproductive.

Nature is beautiful, not because it changes beautifully, but simply because it changes.

Conservatives try to adjust their behavior to fit the facts of nature. Liberals try to adjust the facts of nature to fit their behavior.

The best way to manage anything is by making use of its own nature.

Always remember that Nature refuses to be rushed. She can only be made to evolve and that takes time, so take heart.

You cannot go against nature. She is stronger than the strongest of men. We can permit ourselves some liberties, but in details only.

Nature may reach the same result in many ways.

Expediency is a law of nature. The camel is a wonderful animal, but the desert made the camel.

As you solve one set of problems, new ones appear. That is part of the nature of life.

Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, "I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway."

Acting is a reflex, a mechanism for development and survival. . . . It isn't 'second nature,' it is 'first nature.'

there is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change.

Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent

There is a tendency in nature to the continued progression of certain classes of varieties further and further from the original type.

Neuroplasticity contributes to both the constrained and unconstrained aspects of our nature. It renders our brains not only more resourceful, but also more vulnerable to outside influences.

From the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of higher animals, directly follows.

we still have the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building and the Woolworth Building, but it just seems like part of the nature of New York, that it's always shifting.

To think, we have the garment industry instead of nature to thank for the zipper concept when it would have come in so handy for childbirth.

In design, Mother Nature is our best teacher.

Today, computers are almost second nature to most of us.

Rocks crumble, make new forms, oceans move the continents, mountains rise up and down like ghosts yet all is natural, all is change.

One of the many interesting challenges nature presents us is its apparent disinterest in maintaining the order humans crave.

It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.