Quotes About Adaptation

When a vine withers and dies, you know you've planted it in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Is it?" I asked. "The past, over and done? Is it ever?" "Ever changed? No. Ever accepted? Yes. It becomes who you are. That doesn't have to be a bad thing.

Accept what you can't change by changing what you can't accept. My father may have died nearly in front of my daughter's nose, but I won't have her thinking the timing was all bad. I can change the narrative. Can't I?

I understand Tom's got a good business going now." Sheila nodded. "Computers. He's taught me a lot about them. They're not really so bad. Oh, they don't pick up the dirty laundry or do boring case reports or—" she glanced down "—fix rum and Cokes, but they're pretty clever when it comes to things intellectual." She drawled the last for every syllable it was worth.

There are two reasons people change. One is if they've opened their minds, the other if their hearts have been broken.

Rituals help us change modes.

At every place and time throughout your life, take frankly what that place and time can give you, and think of its limitation as advantage rather than harm. —JOHN RUSKIN

The long head, even with a big brain would not get on so well in the world. Anyway,

We are a party of innovation. We do not reject our traditions, but we are willing to adapt to changing circumstances, when change we must. We are willing to suffer the discomfort of change in order to achieve a better future.

Going outside the system seems sometimes the only way to get anything done—even by those within the system.

Even when change is welcome, adapting to it doesn't always come easily

Life was going along smoothly, and then in a moment everything changed. It happened to me with my mother. It happened to Lockie at the Three Day. You do everything you can to right the ship of your life again, but it always lists a little.

Well, you know, life marches on. And sometimes we have to join the parade whether we want to or not.

Sometimes, the more you stir it, the worse it stinks.

They do a terrible job of adapting to natural ecosystems (like a mature forest or grassy prairie). If you were to abandon your garden tomorrow and let nature have its way with the place, most plants that fit into the category of garden weeds would be gone within a few years. Garden weeds depend on humans to provide them with an open place to grow, and they further benefit from our efforts to keep garden soil fertile and moist. Where humans cultivate, garden weeds grow.

They've moved me to a new office and I don't like it at all. Different pigeons come to the window.

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

You don't have to get it right the first time.

If I get stuck in who I am now, I will never blossom into who I might yet become. I need to practice the gentle art of letting go. —SAM KEEN, AUTHOR

More cotton will grow on a crooked row than a straight one.

Life was life. It happened. You never knew what was going to come at you. Or how you could defend yourself.

It changes, but in some lives change is a long time coming.

The impetus of existing plans is always stronger than the impulse to change.

No single characteristic ever overtakes an entire society.