Quotes About Adaptation

What don't we realize is that we are a strange and forbidding species to wild animals. We fill them with fear. They avoid us as much as possible. It took centuries to still the fear in some pliable animals – domestication it's called – but most cannot get over their fear, and I doubt they ever will. When wild animals fight us, it is out of sheer desperation. They fight when they feel they have no other way out.

I thought I would run out of paper. It was the pens that ran out.

life will defend itself no matter how smallit is

Change becomes a habit and habits are hard to change .

And I survived because I made a point of forgetting.

Progress is unstoppable. It is a drumbeat to which we must all march. Technology helps and good ideas spread - these are two laws of nature. If you don't let technology help you, if you resist good ideas, you condemn yourself to dinosaurhood!

Things didn't turn out the way they were suppsed to, but qhat can you do? You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.

A dolgok nem úgy alakultak, ahogy kellett volna, de mit tehet az ember? Úgy kell fogadnunk az életet, ahogy jön, és amennyire lehet, ki kell hoznunk belÅ'le a legjobbat.

Zonder gekte zou geen enkele soort kunnen overleven.

Then normal sank.

animals fight, it is with the intent to kill and with the understanding that they may be killed. A

I have survived so far, miraculously. Now I have to turn miracle into routine.

Things didn't turn out the way they were supposed to, but what can you do? You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.

How true it is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.

Moving a zoo is like moving a city.

In the wild, animals stick to the same paths for the same pressing reasons, season after season.

Within the limits of their nature, they make do with what they have.

No culture is so primitive that it is entirely determined by the natural influences of environment and economic function, nor yet any is so advanced that it is not conditioned by these influences.

the more widely we extend the range of education, the more necessary it is to provide some principle of cohesion to counterbalance the centrifugal tendencies of specialization and utilitarianism.

Imperiul hun a fost, mai intai de toate, unul parazitar; succesul sau a constat in abilitatea de a imita cultura celor cuceriti, de a se folosi de bunurile lor si de a consuma hrana produsa de acestia.

If we remain relatively stable and unchanging in terms of our thinking, then the very power of life for change and creation will become exhausted.

Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.

O ''crescimento'' tornou-se um eufemismo para a sobrevivência.