Quotes About Adaptation

Thinking the way you've always thought and doing things you've always done will only lead to more of the same. You need to be disruptive!

We all have different needs for food, vitamins, rest, exercise, stress tolerance, or ability to handle toxins.

Nature, the ultimate pragmatist, doggedly searches for something that works. But as the cockroach demonstrates, what works best in nature does not always appeal to us.

Both the steamboat service to Albany and the Erie Canal were destined to be swiftly fleeting marvels, eclipsed by the next idea. Only seven years after the Seneca Chief brought whitefish to New York Harbor, the city's railroad age had begun. The

At about this time the Asiatic wolf, a fierce predator that despite its small size would eat a human if it had the opportunity, came under human control because its friendly young cubs could be fed and trained. A dangerous adversary was turned into a dedicated helper—the dog.

Gerrit Gerritszoon, who renamed himself Desiderius Erasmus.

If you had a sad childhood, so what? You can dance with only one leg and see the snowflake falling with only one eye. —ROBERT BLY

life becomes a living of who we are until that form of self can no longer hold us, and, like Taaora in his shell, we must break the forms that contain us in order to birth our way into the next self. This is how we shed our many ways of seeing the world, not that any are false, but that each serves its purpose for a time until we grow and they no longer serve us.

Staying the same isn't enough because yesterday's success can easily become tomorrow's mediocrity.

Mark Sanborn

He loved Minnesota's flora and fauna and seemed ill-suited as either a fawner or floorer, a

For a century, Edison's light bulb was regarded as a beacon of American genius; then it became a 'climate criminal. That transformation is American decline in a nutshell.

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

You adapt yourself, Paul Klee said, to the contents of the paintbox. Adapting yourself to the contents of the paintbox, he said, is more important than nature and its study. The painter, in other words, does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paintbox and its inherited contents.

Her courtesy, her compliance, and especially her silence dated from a time otherwise gone.

Fish gotta swim and bird gotta sly; insects, it seems, gotta do one horrible thing after another.

Most humans who were ever alive lived inside a single culture that had not changed for hundreds of thousands of years.

It is hard to understand how the same tree could thrive both choking along Pittsburgh's Penn Avenue and slogging knee-deep in Tinker Creek. Of course, come to think of it, I've done the same thing myself.

We are civilized generation number 500 or so, counting from 10,000 years ago when we settled down. We are Homo sapiens generation number 7,500, counting from 150,000 years ago when our species presumably arose. And we are human generation number 125,000, counting from the earliest Homo species. Yet how can we see ourselves as only a short-term replacement cast for a long-running show, when a new batch of birds flies around singing, and new clouds move?

Form follows function in the created world, so far as I know, and the creature that functions, however bizarre, survives to perpetuate its form.

Jetzt bleibt ihm nur noch er Tod, doch der lässt auf sich warten, weil Mahmoud ein Gewohnheitstier ist und sich daran ewöhnt hat, am Leben zu sein.

The MacKinnons were always new, always almost just like everyone else. Always next door to normal. It was like growing up in the witness protection program without changing your name.

Uno y otro deben estar aprendiendo hasta

Anger is a good example of a negative emotion whose benefits have been diminishing in evolution.