190 Quotes About Adaptation

Writing is a journey into the unknown.

For him the word 'horror' had become obsolete.

A surfeiting of terror soon made terror a cliché.

The oak is the strongest tree in the forest, but the willow bends and adapts. When the fires and storms hit, it is the willow that survives.

By these days it was a demerit to be muscular. Each infant was examined at birth, and all who promised undue strength were destroyed. Humanitarians may protest, but it would have been no true kindness to let an athlete live; he would never have been happy in that state of life to which the Machine had called him; he would have yearned for trees to climb, rivers to bathe in, meadows and hills against which he might measure his body. Man must be adapted to his surroundings, must he not?

We assimilate a little this way, and a little that way. Life is only mutation.

Life happens how it happens, and you either move with the maelstrom or die wallowing about the change in the winds.

Life persists if it can respond and adapt to its environment.

When the world changes faster than species can adapt, many fall out. This is the case whether the agent drops from the sky in a fiery streak or drives to work in a Honda.