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Quotes About Adaptation

Listening to nature's operating instructions.
~ Janine Benyus
How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change
~ Elizabeth Lesser
Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws.
~ Charles Darwin
It is smarter to borrow from nature than to reinvent the wheels.
~ Philip Emeagwali
I love nature, but I try to change it a little bit, not copy it.
~ Elsa Peretti
You see, nature will do exactly what it must, and if we are a hindrance to its development, to even its destructive powers to reform itself and we are in a way, we will go.
~ Ralph Steadman
Nature ever provides for her own exigencies.
~ Seneca the Younger
We are not to tell nature what she's gotta be... She's always got better imagination than we have.
~ Richard P. Feynman
Nature does not care what we call it, she just keeps on doing it.
~ Richard P. Feynman
One cannot in the nature of things expect a little tree that has been turned into a club to put forth leaves.
~ Martin Buber
Mammals of every species indulge in play. Games are Nature's way of preparing us to face difficult realities.
~ Daniel Suarez, Daemon
If it was true today, it might be untrue tomorrow.
~ Janet Morris
At what point in my struggle with nature will nature finally give up?
~ Ashleigh Brilliant
s a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
~ Abraham Cowley
But Lord! To see the absurd nature of Englishmen that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at everything that looks strange.
~ Samuel Pepys
Nature always strikes back. It takes all the running we can do to remain in the same place.
~ Rene Dubos
Human nature, if it changes at all, changes not much faster than the geological face of the earth.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
By nature, men love newfangledness.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
Human intelligence may not be the best trick nature has to offer.
~ Bryant H. McGill
Nature generally struggles against this treatment for a while, until her powers seem in a great measure exhausted, when she quietly yields to the power of the art.
~ Robert Fortune
Change is the hallmark of nature. Nothing remains the same.
~ Alan Weisman
Man is a fugitive from nature.
~ Jose Ortega y Gasset
Nature and education are somewhat similar. The latter transforms man, and in so doing creates a second nature.
~ Democritus