We have spent our entire existence adapting.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The world has not yet reached the point which, in my view, is an essential condition for the survival of our human species: access by all the peoples to the material resources of this planet.
Once humans traded their hunter-gatherer existences for more settled communities, we began a quest to make our lives better and more comfortable, but we've also been sucking precious finite resources from our environment ever since.
We spend our time responding rationally to a world which we understand and recognize, but which no longer exists.
With all our mastery over the powers of Nature we have adhered to the view that the struggle for existence is a permanent and necessary condition of life.
Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations.
Everything lives and lasts by the inner necessity of its being, by its own nature's need.
Now our whole activity is devoted to God, and our whole life, since we are bent on progress in divine things.
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 is nature is constantly changing.
As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.
We can spend our whole lives underachieving.