Quotes About Adaptation

To be ill adjusted to a deranged world is not a breakdown.

Permanence of instinct must go with permanence of form...The history of the present must teach us the history of the past. [Referring to studying fossil remains of the weevil, largely unchanged to the present day.]

Her body has become unused to electric comforts.

He can prolong the moment of irrational hope that maybe some sliver of yesterday's world is still intact.

Less than two weeks ago, dirt on the floor in her hallway was a thing that could annoy her. It's unimaginable.

Recevant une faible irradiation solaire aux heures les plus chaudes, ils n'avaient plus besoin de toison... sauf sur la tête.

Homo erectus ne se réfugie plus dans les arbres, c'est un véritable chasseur qui parcourt de grandes distances en milieu découvert. Il est bien adapté à la chaleur des savanes et des steppes. Il est peut-être le premier à posséder une peau nue, capable de transpirer.

It's not where you take things from - it's where you take things to.

Change nothing so that everything will be different

It's not where you take things from - it's where you take them to.

the institution of afternoon tea is suffering in an England that grows more American every day,

If it hurts so much that you have to bubble-wrap your body, maybe you should play something different.

What is amazing for a woman of my age is that I change as the world is changing-and changing very, very fast. I don't think my mother had that opportunity to change.

Change is a more complicated process involving brain integration than is data gathering.

The significant problems we face cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.

Big, old companies are simply not designed for digital.

One time I saw a tiny Joshua tree sapling growing not too far from the old tree. I wanted to dig it up and replant it near our house. I told Mom that I would protect it from the wind and water it every day so that it could grow nice and tall and straight. Mom frowned at me. "You'd be destroying what makes it special," she said. "It's the Joshua tree's struggle that gives it its beauty.

I lived in a world that at any moment could erupt into fire. It was the sort of knowledge that kept you on your toes.

If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim

People are like animals. Some are happiest penned in, some need to roam free. You go to recognize what's in her nature and accept it.

Accept what you can't change, and change what you can. It's easier than you think.

omdat ze niet begreep dat ik met mijn benaderingswijze, die op het oog nogal ondoorzichtig was, in zekere zin beoogde de realiteit waarmee ik werd geconfronteerd murw te maken, zoals men er pas in slaagt bij voorbeeld een olijf aan zijn vork te prikken als men haar eerst murw heeft gemaakt, en dat mijn neiging nooit iets te forceren niet nadelig voor me was maar in werkelijkheid juist het terrein voor me effende waar ik, als de dingen me rijp leken, zou kunnen scoren.

We are not designed to deal with the many stress-inducing situations of the twenty-first century. For most of human history, the stressors we faced were mainly physical, like running away from wild animals. Now they are almost entirely psychological. When was the last time you were frightened by a lion? The things that cause us stress in our modern world are the ones that go inside our heads.

I'm not saying you can live with it, I'm saying