Quotes About Adaptation

Because every time someone finds a new animal, or a new amazing thing on earth, it means we haven't broken everything yet.

Wonders have been born before. Sometimes they've been worshipped. There've been new things over and over, and some creatures have fallen groaning to the ground and others have learned to fly.

It is curious to observe how customs and ceremonies degenerate.

We travel to learn and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own.

The environment acts more strongly upon the individual life the less fixed and strong this individual life may be.

suggestion than hers. If we are to make practical application of the Montessori scheme we must not neglect to consider the modifications of it which differing social conditions may render necessary.

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future.

We wish the old things because we cannot understand the new, and we are always seeking after that gorgeousness which belongs to things already on the decline, without recognising in the humble simplicity of new ideas the germ which shall develop in the future.

Change must be a constant if we are willing to continuously challenge ourselves

Why do we keep believing that we can control nature,even as it banishes us repeatedly from our homes in search of new fertile ground?

There's always another storm. It's the way the world works. Snowstorms, rainstorms, windstorms, sandstorms, and firestorms. Some are fierce and others are small. You have to deal with each one separately, but you need to keep an eye on whats brewing for tomorrow.

Cold enough to freeze your Winnebago one day, melting all over the place the next.

Remember that it is not enough to have everything around you beautiful, remember that there must also be change and flux, because it is through change that we pretend that we can make decisions, and keep our pride, and go on pretending that both change and choice exist.

Life provides me both the right and the responsibility of continuously adapting my way of thinking.

Too strong of a light can be deadly to the one used to read by candlelight.

Your kind shouldn't come here. The change is too great for Seals. Yet you have chosen it and rejected your society, so you must learn quickly or perish.

Ecstasy affordsthe occasion and expediency determines the form.

Of the crow-blue mussel shells, one keepsadjusting the ash heaps;opening and shutting itself likeaninjured fan.

To wear the arctic foxyou have to kill it.

Truth is no Apollo Belvedere, no formal thing. The wave may go over it if it likes. Know that it will be there when it says, "I shall be there when the wave has gone by.

I don't want to be like trees that put down roots in one place," he wrote. "I'd rather be like the wind, the water, the sun—like all those things that are forever in perpetual motion.

Sheep eat the grass, wolves eat the deer, and dragons eat everything that doesn't run away fast enough.

He was a man who did not properly exist in any single world, but he seemed to have found a place between them, and that, more than his past, was who he was.

It is remarkable what children will accept as normal, especially when their experiences have been sufficiently broad.