Quotes About Adaptation

In the northern hemisphere, always dressing according to the season: bare arms in spring (however cold it is) and woolen jacket in winter (however hot it is).

There is no such thing as a strange world, only a new world.

When you must choose a new path, do not bring old experiences with you. Those who strike out afresh, but who attempt to retain a little of the old life, end up torn apart by their own memories.

There never was a woman so ill-suited to public life as I am. I have had to whip myself, as it were, into society, and the loneliness of it all has been terrific.

In place of science, the Eskimo has only magic to bridge the gap between what he can understand and what is not known. Without magic, his life would be one long panic.

Whatever I think, whatever I try to do, life might just turn around and... and hitch up its pants and throw me a twenty-dollar bill.

We can't always control what happens but we can control our response

Neurogenesis continues throughout life and we have the capacity to establish new neural pathways and strengthen existing ones.

The transition from rebellion to acceptance has an extremely important consequence. . . in which we start seeing life as a training school, to teach us what we need to learn.

It's a matter of time; you adapt to the different culture and different way of life. Human beings are adaptable.

In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other.

Leaving things behind and starting again is a way of coping with difficulties. I learnt very early in my life that I was able to leave a place and still remain myself.

Overall, my life has been one of survival and the decisions that I have made along the way, including my identification, have been to survive.

We may need to let go of our beliefs and ideas about life in order to have life.

I'm not very good at being domesticated. I've tried. The domestic life I find claustrophobic - the rituals and habits and patterns.

Life has a way of demanding that you live it.

I've been gratified to see over the twenty or so years of my writing life the West become less of a colony of the East; maybe new technologies and too much travel undermine the idea of provinciality.

Once you taste the second income in the household and it changes your lifestyle, you get used to it.

Humans are just a very, very small part of the panoply of life, and it is arguable that in a certain sense, humans have emancipated themselves from Darwinian selection.

Most of what we strive for in our modern life uses the apparatus of goal seeking that was originally set up to seek goals in the state of nature.

I change jobs like drinking water ... And as I grow accustomed to the new flavor of a drink I regard as delicious, yes, vital, something fades, life balks. So I break camp; I shed skins.

Life always delivers the creative energy you need to change into the new thing you must become.

There was a period in my life where I went out a lot and I had a really good time. But that period is over.

We'll do what life always does defy expectations.