Quotes About Adaptation

Next morning, when I got up, the inside temperature was 30° below zero. The new arrangement was working quite nicely indeed.

Next morning, when I got up, the inside temperature was 300 below zero. The new arrangement was working quite nicely indeed.

You can run from change, but you can't run away from change.

The places that thrive today are those with the highest velocity of ideas, the highest density of talented and creative people, and the highest rate of metabolism. "Velocity" and "density" are not words many people use when describing suburbia.

Most things don't stay the way they are very long.

Trilobites survived for a total of three hundred million years, almost the whole duration of the Palaeozoic era: who are we johnny-come-latelies to label them as either 'primitive' or 'unsuccessful'? Men have so far survived half a per cent as long. There

It is not necessary to be large to be a perfectly good arthropod (or mollusc, come to that).

Trilobites survived for a total of three hundred million years, almost the whole duration of the Palaeozoic era:

It has pleased and interested me to see how I could get along under difficult circumstances and with so much discomfort but as I say I was not sent out here to improve my temper or my health or to make me more content with my good things in the East.

They do less well in contexts in which they are inexperienced and poorly informed, and in which feedback is slow or infrequent

People think about life in terms of changes, not levels.

When you know something cannot be done, also remember the essential reason why, so later, when the circumstances have changed, you will not say 'It can't be done.

Teachers should prepare the student for the student's future, not for the teacher's past.

To see the obvious it often takes an outsider, or else someone like me who is thoughtful and wonders what he is doing and why it is all necessary. Even when told, the old timers will persist in the ways they learned, probably out of pride for their past and an unwillingness to admit there are better ways than those they were using for so long.

For, with a ship's gear, as well as a sailor's wardrobe, fine weather must be improved to get ready for the bad to come.

We will go on producing myths, ways of explaining ourselves to ourselves but, like everything else about us, they are in constant transition and we must not fundamentalise any of them.

Lao Tse told them to relax and learn from the life of a plant. It doesn't have to be told how to do its thing. It follows its nature.

Never become used to anything you love. It blunts the edge of appreciation.

If you can't live in the land you love, love the land you're in.

A man could get used to anything if he had to.

For him the word 'horror' had become obsolete.

No sabía cuánto tiempo había pasado allí. Al fin, pensó, aun el dolor más profundo se aplaca, la desesperación más intensa se desvanece. La maldición del verdugo: la víctima se acostumbra al látigo.

There were still many things to learn, but not so many as before. Strangely, life was becoming almost bearable.

After a while, though, even the deepest sorrow faltered, even the most penetrating despair lost its scalpel edge. The flagellant's curse, he thought, to grow inured even to the whip.