Forest Quote by Yuval Noah Harari

For three million years we were hunter-gatherers, and it was through the evolutionary pressures of that way of life that a brain so adaptable…

— Anonymous

One reason that we're so adaptable is that humans are excellent tool users and homebuilders. When our environment doesn't provide us with something that…

— Annalee Newitz

Eventually, humans invented agriculture, which could be understood as a way of turning the natural world into a tool for our use. There's evidence…

— Annalee Newitz

We are not talking about esthetics. We are talking about life: survival of Man. We must train young people to get another vision of…

— Thor Heyerdahl

But complex animals had obtained their adaptive flexibility at some cost--they had traded one dependency for another. It was no longer necessary to change…

— Michael Crichton

We're the only creature God ever created that doesn't want to adapt. We want to make it stand still. And one thing that's constant…

— Don Young

The more I study Nature, the more I become impressed with ever-increasing force that the contrivances and beautiful adaptations slowly acquired through each part,…

— Charles Darwin

“For the vast majority of our time on earth, our species did not buy its food or its clothing or its shelter or its…

— Matthew Fox

The origin of agriculture involved both human intentionality and a set of underlying ecological and evolutionary principles.

— Kent V. Flannery

We spent an enormous amount of time as hominids and as primates living as hunter-gatherers. That is the natural way for us to live,…

— Spencer Wells

What is evolution if not creative adaptation and the progression of our own souls?

— Terry Tempest Williams

“The final and most important point about adaptation is really a crucial caveat: no organism is primarily adapted to be healthy, long- lived, happy,…

— Daniel E. Lieberman