Quotes About Adaptation

If the old religion could no longer answer the questions of the children then perhaps it was time to change it.

The motto of all the mongoose family is, Run and find out, and Rikki-tikki was a true mongoose.

Hearts are like horses. They come and they go against bit or spur.

Ay, roar well, said Bagheera, under his whiskers, for the time will come when this naked thing will make thee roar to another tune, or I know nothing of man.

When a snake misses its stroke, it never says anything or gives any sign of what it means to do next.

As Mang flies between the beasts and birds, so fly I between the village and the jungle. Why?

They gave him a little piece of raw meat. Rikki-tikki liked it immensely, and when it was finished he went out into the veranda and sat in the sunshine and fluffed up his fur to make it dry to the roots. Then he felt better.

Rikki-tikki's mother (she used to live in the general's house at Segowlee) had carefully told Rikki what to do if ever he came across white men.

Gently, said the troop horse. Remember they are always like this to begin with. The first time I ever saw a man, I ran for half a day, and if I'd seen a camel, I should have been running still

From then on, we were simply different people. Not new people; different.

If we'd been edible we'd never have lasted this long.

What do you do when you're wound up?' she asked. 'Do you play that drum?'. 'No,' said the child. 'We used to dance.' 'But now we walk,' said the father. 'And behind us an enemy walks faster.' 'That's life,' said Euterpe.

Before the motorcar replaced the horse, and for some years after there were many illustrators who drew horses with the same authority with which they drew the human figure; now there are very few who can do that. Most modern illustraters fudge a horse the best they can and hope to get on by the technique.

The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accomodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed in his community. From the moment of his birth the customs into which he is born shape his experience and behavior.

wriggled to avoid the lump that always seemed directly under

When I run out of the things I love, I move on to the things I don't hate too much, and sometimes I even discover that I can love the things I think I hate.

You never know who it's going to be, or what they'll bring, but whatever it is, it's always exactly what is needed.

You can't hold on to water or keep it from leaking away.

They knew how to make a spoon that was exactly the right shape to hold in your hand and put into your mouth, even if your hands were still small and your mouth was little.

As someone who has to teach for a living, I shouldn't be saying this, but the planet can do quite well without books.

we must keep up our studies even as civilization collapses around us.

schools while their dads are on company assignments, and then have to catch up with their Japanese grade level when their dads get transferred back. Only my dad wasn't on a company assignment, and he wasn't getting transferred

If we can't act on knowledge, then we can't survive without ignorance. So we cultivate the ignorance, go to great lengths to celebrate it, even.

As we moved from Tokyo the world became greener.