Quotes About Adaptation

Humanity's story must be one of constant change because that is one way to transmute pain into hope.

Humanity's story must be one of constant change because that is the way to transmute pain into hope.

It's terrifying to realize that most of humanity lives in places that are destined to die.

Anything can be unlearned — even in the most settled civilizations.

Is there some kind of rule for when Sam should be a boy and when he's a Wolf?" "A Wolf lifts his leg and yellows up the snow. A boy has to use the toilet." "And that will work?" "Only if he needs to pee.

He had a feeling this was one of those times when a male should express positive enthusiasm regardless of what he really thought—especially when he didn't really know what was going on.

I]f you adapted too much in order to deal with them, you ran the risk of forgetting who you were and you could end up being neither and nothing.

And when one kind of animal overruns an area to the point where many kinds of animal begin to starve, it's up to the predators to thin out the herds before there's nothing left for anyone. That's a simple truth whether you're talking about deer or humans.

He moved forward cautiously. He circled it, sniffed it, whapped it with a paw. Then he found the product tag and stared at it for a minute. Turning toward her, he lifted a lip in something that might have been a sneer. "I know it says it's a dog bed, but I'm sure a Wolf can use it," Meg said. Nothing but grumbly sounds from the Wolf. "Fine. If you want to lie on a cold, hard floor instead of something comfy and warm just because Wolf is spelled d-o-g, you go right ahead.

If you believe some of the old stories, earth natives have been around in one form or another since the beginning of the world. They were the top predators then and they're the top predators now because they change as the world changes, absorbing qualities from new species of predators without losing the essence of what they are.

Since it looked like this was going to be my new normal, I might not be using the straightest ruler when it came to measuring crazy.

Many kinds of prey had perfected the art of hiding sickness or injury to avoid being singled out when predators were hunting.

Some, like Lorne, who ran the Three Ps—the shop for paper, printing, and postage—went on as they had before.

Earth natives didn't absorb everything from the forms they had chosen over the long years the sun had risen and set over Namid. They were first and always terra indigene. But they learned from the predators they became, and certain traits were passed down to the young of each form. Yes

so my cousin was called Shay D., which quickly became Shady." "Unusual name for a police officer," Monty said.

Do you know what happened to the dinosaurs? The Others is what happened to the dinosaurs.

But innovation and invention do not only happen with smart people who have all of the answers. Innovation results from trial and error. The task is to make good mistakes, good errors, in the right direction.

After a short time I changed my condition and was married, and came into this country, where I found a new world and new manners, at which my heart rose. But after I was convinced it was the way of God, I submitted to it and joined the church at Boston.

Over hundreds of thousands of years, extraverts and introverts have not differed in their average reproductive output (although they might have differed at any one time or place in our evolutionary history). We can conclude that, while there are personality differences, there is no one "personality" that is inherently more adaptively successful than any other.

A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.

You can get used to eating breakfast with a man in a fedora. You can get used to anything, my mother was in the habit of saying.

He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.

to carry one's own door will make a person clumsy, tired and strange on the other hand, it may come in useful if you go places that don't have an obvious way in, like normality or an obvious way out, like the classic double bind

English is a bitch