Quotes About Adaptation

The worst of it is over now, and I can't say that I am glad. Lose that sense of loss--you have gone and lost something else.

I could see the genius in allowing future to evolve. You could create momentum. You could launch something and see where it goes. You couldn't line everything up, like so many dominoes, and make everything fall into place.

A concept Fred likely learned in his graduate studies in child development, sublimation is the process by which socially unacceptable behaviors are channeled—sublimated—into more socially acceptable ways.

Just as it takes a tree a long time to begin to grow again once it's transplanted, so you can give your healthy roots time to find the nourishment of your new soil in your new community.

It would be difficult to convince me that leaning has no effect whatsoever on the outcome of my bowling.

If it feels good, enjoy it. If it doesn't, adjust your position until it does.

Accept that there were some things you could not change and some things that you should.

I'm starting to think being a grown-up isn't going to school or even paying your own rent. It's learning to fake it when you got no other choice.

there a tiny tribe on an island in the South Pacific that is being destroyed by climate change and does not get any sort of technology that does

Some adjustments you made for life because you wanted to have a life.

About the only thing camels and horses have in common, sir, is that people ride them.

It's when we refuse to change in the face of upheaval that we fail.

Mountains fall. Deserts bloom. Oceans turn to sand.

Scissors-style nippers are also a good choice. They may take the least getting-used-to, if you are new to pet nail trimming.

Why is it that a worm can regrow most of its body, but we can't replace so much as a finger? I am left with the troubling conclusion that the worm's survival may, in the grand scheme of things, be more important than my own.

One is deep indigo blue," he said. "Eighteen inches long and about a thumb's width in diameter. It's got big white spots with yellow centers, like fried eggs, all over its back, if you can imagine that. And get this—it crawls on the forest floor, doesn't burrow in the ground, and its infants live in trees until they're mature.

We may therefore infer—" he writes, "improbable as is the inference—that worms are able by some means to judge which is the best end by which to draw triangles of paper into their burrows.

For the past several years, the daily high-water mark in the Miami area has been racing up at the rate of almost an inch a year, nearly 10 times the rate of average global sea-level rise.

Any environment, any single life is in a continuous state of change. This is just more obvious when you pay attention to earthworms. Their work may seem unspectacular at first. They don't chirp or sing, they don't gallop or soar, they don't hunt or make tools or write books. But they do something just as powerful: they consume, they transform, they change the earth.

can take over a week for a Venus flytrap to devour its prey, and it may only eat a few bugs in its life. Although people can force a trap to close by running a finger along it, carnivorous plant enthusiasts consider this rude.

If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.

If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.

But she never looked back with regret. There were so many ways for things to get better. -Jing-mei

Living with uncertainty is like having a rock in your shoe. If you can't remove the rock, you have to figure out how to walk despite it. There is simply no other choice.