Adapting Quote by Peter Drucker

“Missing, however, are nearly all fauna adapted to us. The seemingly invincible cockroach, a tropical import, long ago froze in unheated apartment buildings. Without…

— Alan Weisman

“I knew that cockroaches could go more than a month without food or water. And they could even survive on wood for food. And…

— Clarice Lispector

“Elephant, beyond the fact that their size and conformation are aesthetically more suited to the treading of this earth than our angular informity, have…

— Beryl Markham

“Of all African animals, the elephant is the most difficult for man to live with, yet its passing - if this must come -…

— Peter Matthiessen

Without birds to feed on them, the insects would multiply catastrophically. ... The insects, not man or other proud species, are really the only…

— H. Bentley Glass

A cockroach can’t defeat a dinosaur. But the cockroach is better at one thing, and it has ensured its survival through the ages: Adaptation.…

— Georges St-Pierre

When elephants fight, ants get killed.

— Ritu Ghatourey

Dinosaurs were huge and powerful; they could not adapt and they died out. And so the big difference between dinosaurs and cockroaches is adaptability:…

— Georges St-Pierre

Elephants are so wise and so funny and so endangered and so intelligent. I just think there is a lot to learn from them.

— Gloria Steinem

[Elephants] are less agile and physically less adaptable than ourselves - Nature having developed their bodies in one direction and their brains in another,…

— Beryl Markham

Elephants are magnificient creatures.

— Paul Craig Roberts

Elephants love to play around. They are very intelligent animals. They have a strong bond, at times stretching to several decades, with their mahouts.

— Mark Shand