Quotes About Adaptation

She wasn't trying to overcome life, only to get along with it, to blend with the processes she could scarcely understand in a world that had permitted her no solid ground.

After the passing of irresistible music you must make do with a dripping faucet.

Un ordinateur portable est fondamentalement un bâton utilisé par un chimpanzé pour faire sortir les délicieuses fourmis hors d'un trou dans une bûche.

However grim the world, we are what we have evolved into.

If you dive down deep enough there are no words to bring you up. Not my problem. If you fly too high there are no words to help you land. I went back to my land of bears and learned to bob like an apple on the river's surface.

I stopped writing the book that I wanted to write, and wrote the one the book wanted to write.

I pointed out how the eel grass lay flat on the beach, and asked them to imagine what it must be like to live in a forest that worked like a folding stage prop, going from three-dimensional to two-dimensional twice a day.

A weed is a plant out of place.' Let me repeat that. A weed is a plant out of place.' I find a hollyhock in my cornfield, and it's a weed. I find it in my yard, and it's a flower.

since the first edition of this book, much has changed in the world and in American education. And so, too, this book

Now if 6 turned out to be 9, I don't mind, I don't mind.

My occupational hazard is my occupation's just not around...

Breathe in, breathe out, move on

When life gives you limes, make margaritas.

We cannot change the history of the past.

O mais importante e bonito, do mundo, é isto: que as pessoas não estão sempre iguais, ainda não foram terminadas – mas que elas vão sempre mudando. (...) Natureza da gente não cabe em nenhuma certeza.

A única esperança que nos resta é que estas contradições sejam uma questão de gerações. No futuro haveremos de parecer bem ridículos.

Dolphins, I learned from J. Worden of the Harvard Child Bereavement Study at Massachusetts General Hospital, had been observed refusing to eat after the death of a mate. Geese had been observed reacting to such a death by flying and calling, searching until they themselves became disoriented and lost.

When we lose that sense of the possible we lose it fast. One day we are absorbed by dressing well, following the news, keeping up, coping, what we might call staying alive; the next day we are not.

Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends. The question of self-pity.

In fact I had no idea how to be a wife.

You had to feel the swell change. You had to go with the change.

Someone who lives always with a plane schedule in the drawer lives on a slightly different calendar.

I am easy here in a way that I am not easy in other places.

Memory fades, memory adjusts , memory conforms to what we think we remember.