Suzanne Collins Quotes

Most animals are built to withstand one bad year.

Most organisms either adapt and become part of the system, or get wiped out. The only thing we have to adapt to the system with is our brain. If we don't use it, and we don't adapt fast enough, we won't survive.

Those who refused to respond to the new stimulus would perish. Adapt or perish.

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. One could adapt to the environment and the other one couldn’t.

To exist is to adapt, and if one could not adapt, one died and made room for those who could.

It is part of the fundamental impulse in all living things to reach for light, part of the indomitable will to see.

Humans are mutants, everything's a mutant - things that evolve.

We were trained to live by our wits, in any circumstance.

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.

It is not the strongest of the species that survives. Nor is it the most intelligent. It is the members of the species that are most adaptive to change.

Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac.

There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.

You shouldn't be able to be alive and you are. You want to trade?

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

The weak die out and the strong will survive, and will live on forever

In the history of the world the prize has not gone to those species which specialized in methods of violence, or even in defensive armor. In fact, nature began with producing animals encased in hard shells for defense against the ill of life. But smaller animals, without external armor, warm-blooded, sensitive, alert, have cleared those monsters off the face of the earth.

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.

One learns to adapt to the land in which one lives.

Man adapts himself to everything, to the best and the worst.

As some species die out, forms better adapted to utilize the obstacles against which they struggled in vain come into being.

Expediency is a law of nature. The camel is a wonderful animal, but the desert made the camel.

Adaptation is one of the great advantages to being born and bred in Jersey. We're simply not bested by bad air or tainted water. We're like that catfish with lungs. Take us out of our environment and we can grow whatever body parts we need to survive. After Jersey the rest of the country's a piece of cake. You want to send someone into a fallout zone? Get him from Jersey. He'll be fine.

In the end what will happen will be what has happened whenever a civilization breaks up. The people who have brains and courage come through and the ones who haven't are winnowed out.

No. I'm simply saying that life, uh, finds a way.

Life will find a way.