Quotes About Adaptation

We need to move off the planet. And Mars is the next best place.

I think the thing is you always play with what you have in high school. It was always very fastbreaky-type basketball. And then when I went to Marshall, we did the same thing. We had a weird team. Our center was 6'5' and the forward was about 6'10', but he shot from the outside.

Paradox Walnut: Burbank took a slow growing Walnut tree and made it grow fast, thus the name Paradox. Museum thought it was dead and cut off a branch. It was alive. OOPS!

But you'll get used to it. Life has to be lived. You can't sit by the road and watch it pass.

I've often noticed Fiona said, that when people say, 'This can't happen in this day and age', they say it because it is happening.

Must be I find you tough and lusty as the life, all toil and tempo, finesse and plain fight, with values so old they startle me. Must be I think of you as I do the rugged flowers that prove themselves over and over in the spring, that elsewhere might perish, but here master the earth, bloom into gangly lives of high color, and inhale the sun, knowing the land better than the land does. Hardy, savvy, they will outlive us all.

Our lives together, our duet, also continues to evolve, and even if we can't go back to how it was, we're designing a good life for us, in spite of everything.

Nature rarely wastes a winning strategy.

What remained would gradually acquire its own shape and dimension, but many of our favorite things, my favorite ways of being a couple, had vanished and it was no use pretending, hoping, wishing that he would return to his old self, and me to mine. [p. 156]

In the early years of the Uprising, we survived on one meal a day of horse meat and soup, but by the end we ate only dried peas, dogs, cats and birds.

So couples relive romantic memories, families watch home movies, and friends catch up with each other, as if they've lagged behind on a trail. Sifting memory for saliences to report, they reveal how vital pieces of their identity have changed. Aging, we tailor memories to fit our evolving silhouette, and as life's vocabulary changes, memories change to fathom the new order. Lose your memory, and you may drift in an alien world.

Today, instead of adapting to the natural world in which we live, we've created a human environment in which we've embedded the natural world.

If I stand in front of something, instead of arranging it, I arrange myself.

Much of what she found charming and refreshing about him at the outset of their relationship now bugged the hell out of her.

Time has passed. Things have happened. More time will pass. More things will happen. I have become myself again, but I am not the same. Perhaps that is a good thing... This is my life and I'm going to live it.

We live like latecomers at the theatre; we must catch up as best we can, dividing the beginning from the shape of later events.

We live like latecomers to the theater; we must catch up as best we can, divining the begging from the shape of later events.

In short, Emmeline adapted to her twin's absence. She learned how to exist apart. Yet still they reconnected and were twins again. Though Emmeline was not the same twin as before, and this was something Adeline did not immediately know.

There's no scientific basis for it." He'd go on about climate and exposure to sunlight and the beginning of agriculture and diet and all sorts of factors, but she was fascinated at the concept that so-called white people were simply descended from people whose environment left them with a need to absorb more vitamin D from the sun.

When I had finished dressing, I took another look in the same long mirror. There was the man who had come from Australia four months ago, a man in a good dark-gray suit, a white shirt, and a navy-blue silk tie; there was his shell, anyway. Inside I wasn't the same man, nor ever would be again.

How not to sound like a upper class man. It had been mostly a matter, I'd found, of speaking not far back in the throat but up behind the teeth, a reversal of the way I'd just painstakingly learned to speak French like a Frenchman

If I am peaceful…is not peace,/is getting used to harm.

Fashions are not fashions at all but refashioning; language is not communication but reinvention. They are never in place but on display.

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