Quotes About Adaptation

For so long I'd felt that what I'd been trained to do in academic writing was to press my nose to the ground, and here was Nell Stone with her head raised and swiveling in all directions. It was exhilarating and infuriating

But others, the book said, will stay where they are for the winter. Those geese are already home.

The road to success is always under construction

Reality is a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Instead of working for the survival of the fittest, we should be working for the survival of the wittiest - then we can all die laughing.

I can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it's much too confining.

Through the years, you've released parts of you. Some went into the sewer, others you left at your friends' houses, some on the sidewalk while riding your bike as a kid. Your body is used to being taken apart by pieces and put back together. Swapping parts is hardwired into human existence. It takes on a much larger role in death.

What alteration was ever fot the better? Change meant loss.

Life is like riding a bike. It is impossible to maintain your balance while standing still.

Life is a river that never stops flowing. You can dam it, you can harness its power, you can poison it, but you can't stop it. A river never ends. It changes course and cuts through the land. It floods and damages and kills. It can be weakened by drought. But it never stops. It is the fundamental giver of life.

Styles, like everything else, change. Style doesn't.

What I like most about change is that it's a synonym for 'hope'.

We look to envision what could go wrong, what will go wrong, in advance, before we start. Far too many ambitious undertakings fail for preventable reasons. Far too many people don't have a backup plan because they refuse to consider something might not go exactly as they wish.

Take the proverb to thy soul! Take and clasp it fast: "The mill cannot grind with the water that has passed." —Sarah Doudney

Time either erodes us, or it silts us up. There is no cast iron shore.

That was then. This is now.

Silence may be something unusual for her—and it could take time for her to adjust to the possibilities silence provides.

that in modern life we overuse the "fight, flight, or freeze" response, because we respond to many situations as if they are life-threatening when they are not. As a result, our nervous systems don't have time to recover, because we are activating this response too frequently.

The jerboa] survives depravity not by adopting habits of better-known species but by adapting creatively to the unique rigors of its environment. Although Moore's animals do have innately poetic qualities, such as the jerboa's rhythmic leaps, the poems emphasize what she would later identify as her most valuable assets as an artist: persistence and fortitude. Her animal poems are both instructions in the art of survival and acts of survival themselves.

If you stop evolving as a person, you're done." Sylvia Hasenkopf-

A camel is a racehorse designed by committee.

Fooling around with alternating current is just a waste of time. Nobody will use it, ever." Thomas Edison, 1889

When environment changes, there must be a corresponding change in life.

and only by assimilating into their community would they succeed.