Quotes About Adaptation

to letting the environment dictate how you feel on any given day, it would be like a minor superpower.

Practice involves putting your consciousness in suspended animation. Practicing is not living. But when you build your skills through an ever-changing sequence of experiences, you're alive.

If your cave-dwelling ancestors were enamored with the beauty of the scenery instead of, let's say, the herd of carnivorous dinosaurs stampeding their way, they would not have survived to create the miracle that is you.

The worst thing your brain could do is reinterpret your reality into a whole new movie with each new bit of information. That would be exhausting and without benefit. Instead, your brain takes the path of least resistance and instantly interprets your observations to fit your existing worldview. It's just easier.

It could be said that the dishes used human beings in a symbiotic relationship, convincing us through their usefulness to make new dishes.

Reality is overrated and impossible to understand with any degree of certainty. What you do know for sure is that some ways of looking at the world work better than others. Pick the way that works, even if you don't know why. The

Moving into our small American housing enclave above the city were the families of American officers stationed in Saigon, and the free-ranging game of Cowboys and Indians that we boys in the neighborhood had previously played was renamed Green Berets and Viet Cong. It didn't actually change the game that much, except that in the past the Indians sometimes won, and in the new version the Viet Cong never did.

Despite outward appearances, he hadn't gained confidence. He'd simply become desensitized to this specific type of embarrassment. He wondered if that's what all confidence was in the first place.

Although animals didn't die off to the same extent humans did, they were affected by the solar storms, too. Franklin was just glad his goats and chickens hadn't turned on him, but goats were pretty weird even without mutations.

People call me old-fashioned. The younger guys on the force, they bust my chops because I don't speak their language. Harvey Bullock, dinosaur…because, nope, I didn't see that show last night, where they prance around and belt out awful covers and vote each other into the damn ocean or whatnot.

It's all up to you, kid. The dinosaurs are dying out. Become a Bird...

Just try to keep up.

There is nothing like the plumbing fixtures to remind you that you're not in Kansas anymore. By

you can never plan well enough. Life will always outwit you.

Wherever you set foot—on a street in Manhattan as you dodge traffic; on the soft, freshly turned earth of a Hudson Valley farm; on the kelpy tide line below a Maine cottage; or in the pine woods and palmetto thickets of the Carolina Low Country—do not forget that this was once frontier.

Life doesn't come with an instruction manual.

Ah. So he's forgotten the most important rule of warfare. Which is... That nothing ever goes to plan.

It's exciting. But you can't keep fighting the way things are forever.

peeps cant turn into anything smaller than what they are. where would the extra mass go

Her parents didn't understand that braille meant big clunky books that marked you as different, while audiobooks live invisibly on your phone and text-to-speech gave you the whole damn internet.

People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.

Einer neuen Wahrheit ist nichts schädlicher, als ein alter Irrtum.

Very often when we have found ourselves forever separated from what we had intended to achieve, we have already, on our way, found something else worth desiring.

Wer lebt Man sieht die Blumen welken Und die Blätter fallen, aber man sieht auch die Früchte reifen und die Knospen keimen. Das Leben gehört den Lebendigen an und wer lebt, muss auf Wechsel gefasst sein.