Quotes About Adaptation

Life is nothing but changes. Don't resist changes, but be the vanguard of it.

To change yourself, let go of what you are and accept what you want to be.

Tenerife giant rats, Madagascar's hissing cockroach, Galápagos turtles, and King Kong are all examples of island gigantism.

You are designed to reinvent and re-create yourself, over and over again. And, you are here—whether you want to acknowledge it or not; whether you even know it or not—for the evolution of your own soul.

But computers have changed the world for everyone, so there will be some way of working it out.

We live in a disposable, transient-feeling world and usually after five years you go on to the next thing, maybe now even less than five years.

Real education is a radical process. It thumps you on the head until everything you know makes no sense anymore. Then you run around picking up the pieces of your head and picking them back together. The pieces never go back together in the same way.

Perhaps you would be better off finding some way to embrace your new nature, instead of fighting it.

For years she'd been the Central Gates Precinct's Witness Retrieval Specialist – more commonly referred to as a "Ghost Yanker" by her non-magical colleagues on the force. Being stuck in the basement talking to dead victims would depress the hell out of anyone, if they did it for long enough. Then, six months ago, everything changed.

But with sea levels rising along the East Coast—a natural phenomenon accelerated by climate change—scientists project that in our lifetimes what was once considered a hundred-year flood will happen every three to twenty years.

It's not prettier or better than other places and it sure a shell isn't an easy place, but I know how to live here. And that counts.

Friends come and go, Lewis, but the things you learn will always be yours, to use as you will.

Healthy families master the knack of keeping the accent on the positive. Although the family alters after a challenging placement, they work through grief, re-balance, add resources, and find new ways to make life good. Their identity is not wrapped around a child's trauma or limitations. Instead, they find ways to accommodate special needs, without the special needs becoming the focal point of life.

I didn't create this world," she said to herself. "I only have to live in it.

but there will be other things, new things. That's how it is with change. You leave one thing behind, and there's something else to take it's place.

But there will be other things, new things. That's how it is with change. You leave one thing behind, and there's something else to take its place.

Sometimes it takes a crisis for us to discover what we really can do when we have to," her uncle said. "You had to ride Sultan, so you did. Now you know how easy it is. It's as simple as that.

know you dislike change. So do I. But it comes whether we like it or not. Each day we grow older. People are born, marry... die. Governments come and go. Wars are won or lost. Nothing stays the same forever except God's love. All we can do is pray for strength to make the best of whatever comes.

I have ceased to think even of barnacles!' -Charles Darwin

Everything that she valued had come to her through change, and through change she would one day lose everything. All except honor.

the more we distance ourselves from ancestral diets, the more we are likely to be eating a health-robbing diet that is far removed from the health- and gene-enhancing diets on which we evolved and thrived.

Afterwards, I will have to tie the trees to bamboo poles so the wind will not determine their shape. A tree cannot be given form by the vagaries of the wind.

The face beneath the mask has to grow seamlessly into the mask.

I felt at ease with myself, which must have meant that she did not regard me as strange and so I had no reason to imitate someone who was less strange and had been saved from doing the chameleon thing.