Quotes about Adaptation

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. To me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle.

In vain the razor-bill'd auk sails far north to Labrador

Since you can't change the past, you may as well make the best of the present.

The difference between a path and a road is not only the obvious one. A path is little more than a habit that comes with knowledge of a place. It is a sort of ritual of familiarity. As a form, it is a form of contact with a known landscape. It is not destructive. It is the perfect adaptation, through experience and familiarity, of movement to place; it obeys the natural contours; such obstacles as it meets it goes around.

You may say that I am just another outdated old man complaining about progress and the changes of time. But, you see, I have well considered that possibility myself, and am prepared o submit to correction by anybody who cares about a community, who can show me how the world is improved by that community's dying.

A man ought to study the wilderness of a place before applying to it the ways he learned in another place.

Living right on called for nothing out of the ordinary. We made no changes. We only accepted the changes as they came.

It's so dry the trees are bribing the dogs.

We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Change is hard at the beginning. Messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end.

Nothing is lost upon a man who is bent upon growth; nothing wasted on one who is always preparing for - life by keeping eyes, mind and heart open to nature, men, books, experience - and what he gathers serves him at unexpected moments in unforeseen ways.