Quotes About Adaptation

Even the worst haircut eventually grows out.

Our ability to adapt is amazing. Our ability to change isn't quite as spectacular.

so even if spring continues to disappoint we can say at least the lettuce loved the rain.

When a species can't adapt or relocate to a suitable habitat, it doesn't stand a chance. In our rapidly changing environment, people would do well to take this into consideration. Technological advances notwithstanding, the lesson is probably relevant when evaluating the likely geopolitical implications of today's changing environment.

Out of sight, out of mind. It's how i cope.

I keep telling you, when you can't control the action, control the emotion.

I'm going to have to grow my own teeth.

It means, "the melody changes, but the song remains the same," but directly translated it's: "the players change, but the music is always the same.

Life took you right to the edge of where you wanted to go, then turned left.

Movie Jesus is a whole lot different from Bible Jesus

Maybe wisdom tends to latch onto itself when it finds itself in various places.

I was used to shooting beer cans off the back of an old washing machine, or at things that ran away from me that I intended to eat—not things that ran toward me with the intent of eating me. I'd found that to be a significant difference.

In a new country, it helps to remember the things that were good once, the things we want to recreate now.

However, I am accustomed to not having what I want.

The most important skill in life is to learn the acceptance of that which you have not planned for yourself.

I learned that life can change in an instant. It can flip over like a box of Styrofoam peanuts, and you're left scrambling to gather enough insulation to survive, before it all blows away. After that, you sink down into what's left, like a fragile glass vase with a crack in it, trying to avoid further damage. One bold year is worth a dozen timid ones....

we cannot change where God has put us. If we are to bloom at all, we must bloom where we have been planted.

Grief and a change of location can often be more than the mind and body can handle.

Normal doesn't happen overnight when the world around and between you has always been off-balance.

Is survival sometimes about death and rebirth? Egg to caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly?

You can't fix the past. You can only change your way of reacting to it.

Everything I wanted my life to be, it won't be now. The path that brought me here is flooded over. There's no going back.

Life at the Excelsior had been a good training for life in general.

I learned from following in Papa Sevier's footsteps as I grew up. Life is not unlike cinema. Each scene has its own music, and the music is created for the scene, woven to it in ways we do not understand. No matter how much we may love the melody of a bygone day or imagine the song of a future one, we must dance within the music of today, or we will always be out of step, stumbling around