Terry Pratchett Quotes

The packaged food business environment is very Darwinian. You're fighting for survival every year; you evolve and grow or you die. It's really that simple.

If you don't jump on the new, you don't survive.

Two lost things that had survived the seas and arrived on a coastline. What did they do? They implanted themselves in the sand and grew into trees and lined the beaches. Sometimes a lot can come of being all washed up. You can really grow.

A tree without roots will fall over, whereas a tree with roots eventually becomes part of a forest.

The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes.

I throw fresh seeds out. Who knows what survives?

Life is the elimination of what is dead.

I am a big believer of what Darwin discovered in the Galapagos, proving that the species most responsive to change will survive over apparently stronger or more intelligent competitors.

You adapt, evolve, compete or die.

It's like the animal kingdom. Adapt or go extinct.

The fittest of the fittest shall survive !

Lonely's like any other organism; competitive and resourceful in the struggle to perpetuate itself.

Everything has to evolve or else it perishes.

To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.

The law of evolution is that the strongest survives.

The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die.

The great thing about this jungle of ours is that anyone of you could grow up to be Lord of the apes.

Who wants to die? Everything struggles to live. Look at that tree growing up there out of that grating. It gets no sun, and water only when it rains. It's growing out of sour earth. And it's strong because its hard struggle to live is making it strong. My children will be strong that way.

It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest; rejecting that which is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good; silently and insensibly working, wherever and whenever opportunity offers, at the improvement of each organic being in relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life.

In the new world, it is not the big fish which eats the small fish, it's the fast fish which eats the slow fish.

Has it ever occurred to you how lucky you are to be alive? More than 99 percent of all the creatures that have ever lived have died without progeny, but not a single one of your ancestors falls into that group! ... Not a single one of your ancestors, all the way back to the bacteria, succumbed to predation before reproducing, or lost out in the competition for a mate.

Sometimes you must shed your skin to save it.

Everything is born from change. ...there is nothing nature loves more that to alter what exists and make new things like it. All that exists is the seed of what will emerge from it. You think the only seeds are the one that make plants and children? Go deeper.

Multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.

Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins.