Quotes About Adaptation

an organism's primary directive is to continue to exist—

You're going to have to get much smarter very quickly.

The terrible thing, the thought I cannot dislodge after all I have seen, is that I can no longer say with conviction that this is a bad thing. Not when looking at the pristine nature of Area X and then the world beyond, which we have altered so much.

and in the aftermath he'd taken back his name, asked that she call him Control again rather than John, which she respected. Some animals' shells were vital to their survival. Some animals couldn't live for long without them.

I have never done well in cities, even though I lived in one by necessity—because my husband needed to be there, because the best jobs for me were there

I never much understood the point of the world of men. How they fed off each other. How they motivated themselves. I mean, I got the purpose, but I navigated that world the way an astronaut would an alien landscape. Trying not to breathe the same air. Which was impossible, of course.

In the end, if you change the enemy enough, if you wear them down, perhaps losing is good enough.

A bird can be a bat. A bat can be a piece of floating plastic bag. Way of the world. To see things as other things.

For some reason, Area X was very hard on linguists, almost as hard as it was on priests.

It'll be messy, but after a day you'll be zipping around as though you were a thousand years old again.

He lay beside me all those years while I turned and twisted myself to fit beside him...

It would make it that much harder to delude ourselves that humanity's ancestors, alone in the animal kingdom, lost their hair by wandering out into the sunshine.

In short, the fossil record is perfectly compatible with the supposition that at some time between eight and six million years ago, at the north end of the Rift Valley where the most ancient hominid remains have been found, one section of the l. c. a. population found itself living in a watery environment and—whether by choice or under duress—began to adapt to a semi-aquatic existence.

The trouble with specialists is that they tend to think in grooves. From time to time something happens to shake them out of that groove.

Whales and dolphins have been aquatic for about 70 million years and seals for between 25 and 30 million years.

The hypothetical aquatic phase of the ancestral apes during the fossil gap would have been brief, a matter of two or three million years.

Oh, Pollyanna, Pollyanna, to think of the Harrington homestead ever coming to this! It isn't, dearie, Pollyanna at last soothed laughingly. It's the Carews that are COMING TO THE HARRINGTON HOMESTEAD!

But you get used to anything.

I learned that man lives differently, depending on whether he is in a horizontal or vertical position.

Our ethics are not meant to be created in our childhoods and shoved in a box somewhere; they must be reshaped daily, as we encounter scenarios that challenge our beliefs.

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That's how it was on Irving Circle and how I was raised: You made the best out of what was within reach, which meant friendships engineered by parents and by the happenstance of housing. I stayed with it because we both had queenly older sisters who rarely condescended to play with us, because Shelley was adopted and I was not, because Shelley had Clue and Life, and I did not

Plenty of organisms live for a season, in order for those who come next to have a chance, Mayflies, daffodils, the octopus. We can accept that?' 'Well, we're hardwired not to accept our own demise. Daffodils are a lot more chill about it.' 'Okay, but we can be like daffodils together.

was me against the world. But coming here to James Town has changed me. I have learned to depend on others, especially Reverend Hunt, Captain Smith, and even Richard. I have learned the importance of standing together, of cooperating. My circle has