Quotes About Evolution

The journey in between what you once were and who you are now becoming is where the dance of life takes place.

If you look around you at the physical universe, you will see that it's nature is growth. Everything from the cells in your body to the planets orbiting the sun are constantly growing, constantly changing, constantly evolving. Nothing stays still. Nothing remains the same. So think about it - why would your life be the exception? Why would you be the only thing that exists in all of creation whose purpose isn't to grow?

The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place

According to the historian William H. McNeil, European churches did not have pews until sometime in the eighteenth century. People stood or milled around, creating a very different dynamic than we find in today's churches, where people are expected to spend most of their time sitting.

Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.

Things in the margins, including humans who wander there, are often on the brink of becoming something else, or someone else.

Things in the margins, including humans who wander there, are often on the brink of becoming someone else, or something else, whose memory may not include the significance of old markers.

You know what the issue is? Do you want to know? It's what these guys have decided to call America. They have the audacity to say, 'There, you sons of bitches, don't lay a finger on it. That is a finished product.' But any country is still in the making. Always. That's just history, people have to see that.

It's the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.

How is it right to slip free of an old skin and walk away from the scene of the crime? We came, we saw, we took away and we left behind, we must be allowed our anguish and our regrets.

Culture is a slingshot moved by the force of its past

It was hard to feel the remotest sympathy for any of the different fools she'd been. As opposed to the fool she was being now. People hang on to that one, she thought: the fool they are right now.

She has changed in this way that motherhood changes you, so that you forget you ever had time for small things like despising the color pink.

Modern people are just like ancient ones, only more numerous.

I think most people are the same. Until they've gone somewhere.

Having children was not like people said. Forget training them in your footsteps; the minute they put down the teething ring and found the Internet, you were useless as a source of anything but shoes and a winter coat.

I was a skeleton with flesh and clothes and thoughts.

I felt emptied-out and singing with echoes, unrecognizable to myself: that particular feeling like your own house on the day you move out.

To live is to be marked, to live is to change, to die one hundred deaths.

Here, all we can ever be is everything we've been.

Crisis is opportunity.

To have been made the creatures we are is a marvel. If the process required millennia rather than seven days, how can it be any less sublime?

Was this what they meant by hot flashes? But they didn't feel hot. Her body felt full and heavy and slow and human and absent somehow, just a weight to be carried forward without its enthusiastic cycles of fertility and rest, the crests and valleys she had never realized she counted on so much. Dead weight? Was that what she was now; an obsolete female biding its time until death?

The women that loomed large in my life were all getting small.