Quotes About Adaptation

Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit.

Horses have hoofs to carry them over frost and snow; hair, to protect them from wind and cold. They eat grass and drink water, and fling up their heels.... Such is the real nature of horses.

Nature herself is a mass murderer, making casual, cruel experiments and condemning 10,000 to die so that one more fit will live and thrive.

Nature, through all her kingdoms, insures herself.

Ruin is when man-made has become part of nature.

Nature isn't positive in that way. It doesn't aim itself at you. It's not being unkind to you.

We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.

Nature abhors a garden.

cats will be clean in a pigsty while pigs will be dirty in a marble hall.

We take a natural interest in novelties, but it is against nature to take an interest in familiar things.

Stupidity is nature's favorite resource for preserving consistency of opinion.

If humans fight the last war, nature fights the next one.

Human social institutions can effect the course of human evolution. Just as climate, food supply, predators, and other natural forces of selection have molded our nature, so too can our culture.

The leaves let go, the seeds let go, and I must let go sometimes, too, and cast my lot with another of nature's imperfect but tenacious survivors.

deception and 'con games' are a way of life in all species and throughout nature. Organisms that do not improve their ability to deceive - and to detect deception - are less apt to survive.

Nature doesn't move in a straight line, and as part of nature, neither do we.

....Nature imposes nothing on you that Nature doesn't prepare you to bear.

Life works on strange laws of nature (Karma). One never knows when a friend turns enemy & vice-versa. Rely on your Self; self-reliance

Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque revenit. You can drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will nevertheless come back.

Change is the very nature of nature.

With reference to life there is not one nature; there are only associations of states and circumstances, varying from place to place and from time to time.

Change,connectivity,and learning to live well with others and with Nature and her ways will be the features of the world when seen through the eye of Tao.

All evolutionary biologists know that variation itself is nature's only irreducible essence... I had to place myself amidst the variation.

The coral zoophyte may be leveled by transported masses swept over by the waters; yet like the trodden sod, it sprouts again, and continues to grow and flourish as before.