Quotes About Evolution

protected." We began to realize that if we wanted to change the situation, we first had to change ourselves. And to change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.

If ordinary stone didn't have enough wisdom to change, there wouldn't be anything here for you to stand on.

We will never be truly healthy, satisfied, or fulfilled if we live apart and alienated from the environment from which we evolved. Birthright: People and Nature in the Modern World

Eukaryotes evolve morphological responses to environmental challenges—in other words, they develop new body shapes and body parts—which leads to a variety and freshness that is absent in the prokaryotes.

one of the deep mysteries of the origin of life is the almost indecent haste with which it arose on Earth.

The Prokaryote-Eukaryote Transition is Rare

Por supuesto que nos haremos daño, pero esta es la condición misma de la existencia. Para convertirse en primavera, primero hay que ser invierno. Para llegar a ser presencia, primero hay que ser ausencia. ANTOINE DE SAINT EXUPERY, AUTOR

Lo que la oruga llama el fin del mundo, el maestro lo llama una mariposa. RICHARD BACH, ESCRITOR

If you were to pause for a moment and look at your life from a slightly different perspective, you would see you've always been changing.

Time has an annoying way of removing tarnish

Old friendships could atrophy. People changed. What was once appreciated between two people became uncomfortable.

Women seemed to marry a man expecting him to change, but he doesn't. Men marry a woman expecting that she won't change, but she does.

What was once so close and important eventually became so strange and different.

Tiny personality changes here and there inspire growth in us constantly. Inspiration leads to enthusiasm.

Every organization must be prepared to abandon everything it does to survive in the future. —Peter Drucker

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. ~ Joseph Campbell

Reinventing yourself requires problems. They are the games you play in this great tournament. The tournament is called the dance, the dance of life. Each game you win advances you in the tournament.

He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Whatever you can point to – a physical thing, a person, a thought, an emotion – … [a]ll of them change. Even memory shows constant flux and change.

I'm imagining that paper books will evolve to become something akin to candles we have them in our homes and cherish their light but don't light our homes with them. Readers of Lincoln's era would likely be surprised at how well-lit our homes are and I think it's likely that we will be surprised at how well-read future book readers will be.

just remember, darling, it is pain that changes our lives.

My fear represented the failure of the human system. It is a sad truth of our creation: Something is amiss in our design, there are loose ends of our psychology that are simply not wrapped up. My fears were the dirty secrets of evolution. They were not provided for, and I was forced to construct elaborate temples to house them.

As we get older we either become our worst selves or our best selves

their way to becoming