Quotes About Evolution

Start Change Ourselves to Better and Then the Global

There is nothing so changeable as our own live. Er is niets zo veranderlijk als ons eigen leven.

the trees began to form

Mrs. Miniver suddenly understood why she was enjoying the forties so much better than she had enjoyed the thirties: it was the difference between August and October, between the heaviness of late summer and the sparkle of early autumn, between the ending of an old phase and the beginning of a fresh one.

Clem Miniver: She was a good cook, as good cooks go. And as good cooks go, she went.

Not that he disliked school; but it had to be regarded, he found, as another life, to be approached only by way of the Styx. You died on the station platform, were reborn, not without pangs, in the train, and emerged at the other end a different person, with a different language, a different outlook, and a different scale of values.

Perhaps an eternal law of art is that, for everything discovered, something of value is forgotten.

The rules often get in the way of progress.

I don't doubt that at some point I'll be as happy as I was before, but I don't think I'll ever be the same, if that makes sense.

People themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.

Mr. Collins had only to change from Jane to Elizabeth—and it was soon done—done while Mrs. Bennet was stirring the fire.

To know our refuse is to know ourselves. We mark our own trail from past to present with what we've used and consumed, fondled, rejected, outgrown.

About 10 000 years ago, males and females were acting equitably and were treating one another as equals, and then males took over the power, because they have physical power and physical strength.

We are living on average today 34 years longer than our great-grandparents did.

But does that mean that war and violence are inevitable? I would argue not because we have also evolved this amazingly sophisticated intellect, and we are capable of controlling our innate behavior a lot of the time.

Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don't change.

Sometimes in life, you have to make things happen. That you can change your life if you're willing to let go of the old and actively look for the new. That even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

I will hear a noise, like a fish jumping, and when I look I'll see Lizzy coming to the surface, shaking off her pink scales, finding her new arms to do the breaststroke to shore.

Optimism More and more I have come to admire resilience. Not the simple resistance of a pillow, whose foam returns over and over to the same shape, but the sinuous tenacity of a tree: finding the light newly blocked on one side, it turns in another. A blind intelligence, true. But out of such persistence arose turtles, rivers, mitochondria, figs — all this resinous, unretractable earth.

Age in itself gives substance — what has lasted becomes a thing worth keeping. An older poem's increasing strangeness of language is part of its beauty, in the same way that the cracks and darkening of an old painting become part of its luminosity in the viewer's mind.

if you always do what you have always done, you will always get what you have always gotten

Change isn't the end... It's an unfolding, the beginning of something different.

If you want to become more confidant, you have to change yourself image

If the cup is empty, it can be filled.