Quotes About Evolution

Stormkit and Featherkit thrived, eventually taking the warrior names Stormfur and Feathertail

the shame is in not improving when you have the opportunity!

His eyesight wasn't as keen as it had been, but he knew a changing mind when he saw it.

Keep in mind that people change, but the past doesn't.

Tools are first adopted because they meet a certain need or solve a particular problem, but over time the utensils we feel happy using are mainly determined by culture.

Japanese cuisine did not change all at once but in stages.

Japan shows the extent to which food habits evolve.

Flavour principles change. Diets change. And the people eating these diets also change.

But we haven't paid anything like enough attention to another consequence of being omnivores, which is that eating is not something we are born instinctively knowing how to do, like breathing. It is something we learn.

What we forget is that, as omnivores, we are extremely gifted at changing the way we eat to accommodate different environments.

We are all descended from survivors, and survivors were the chubby ones.

There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.

Our life is but a new form of the way men have lived from the beginning.

Life is a plant that grows out of death.

It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work, it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.

Woman began at zero, and has through ages slowly unfolded and risen. Each age has protested against growth as unsexing woman.

Too much looking backward ... is bad for progress.

Laws and institutions are constantly tending to gravitate. Like clocks, they must be occasionally cleansed, and wound up, and set to true time.

But time lessens all extremes and reduces them to mediums & unconcern.

The past still had its future.

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Crying was a good example of how things had changed in the last few days. She used to beleive that crying provoked consolation from others. Now she knew that crying provoked nothing except the sound of its own sadness.

The young adults of the time and their parents and pundits all wrung their hands. But they needn't have. "Those who did best tended to accept change, not to berate themselves for breaking with tradition."41

Life is constant change, and nowhere is this more marked than in a village which used to be a centre of work and is now largely an escape from it.