Quotes About Evolution

There is a lot of growing required.

Try as we may, we can't change ourselves in any significant way.

Lightness brings about nimbleness, nimbleness results in movement, and movement results in transformation.

The transition of the National Rifle Association is a perfect parable: over a couple of decades, it evolved from a gun-safety education organization to a thuggish gang that rewards those at the top with millions of dollars based on proven ability to muscle elected officials into doing what they mostly know is wrong.

Jeb Bush lost for many reasons, but the basic one is that he was running to win a race in a party that no longer existed. He was like a guy who showed up with a tennis racket at a bowling alley.

is impossible to specify what [consciousness] is, what it does, or why it evolved. Nothing worth reading has been written on it.

All the little birdies had flown out of this man's tree.

Even though we are programmed by millions of years of evolution to relentlessly seek out belonging and intimate connection, we persist in defining healthy people as those who do not need others.

As biologist Frans de Waal points out, "We would not be here today had our ancestors been socially aloof." We have survived by caring and cooperating.

course, it's never the same.")

Love isn't just what two people have together, it's what two people make together, so of course, it's never the same.")

Maybe the passing of time had made a monogamous man of Graham.

People start out one way, and by the time life gets through with them they end up completely different.

You know, Lily, people can start out one way, and by the time life gets through with them they end up completely different.

For always, always, we are waking up and then waking up some more.

Later I would read Ursula K. Le Guin's comment: I am a slow unlearner. But I love my unteachers.

When you can't go forward and you can't go backward and you can't stay where you are without killing off what is deep and vital in yourself, you are on the edge of creation.

Isn't flexibility more perfect than stasis?

People can start out one way, and by the time life gets through with them they end up completely different

I think of the dictum that when one person in a relationship starts to become conscious, the other is compelled to become conscious, too. Awakening precipitates awakening, and sometimes a woman's dogged groping for enlightenment and wholeness will ignite the process in her mate (or vice versa).

I think beginnings must have their own endings hidden inside them.

Ann was struggling to figure out the beginning of being a woman, and I, the beginning of the ending of it.

I am the coming together and the falling apart

is new potential in search of ripening and I am ripening in search of new potential.