Environmental Adjustment Quotes

It was such a culture shock for me, being plucked from this diverse neighborhood in London into Jamaica Queens. I'm in this new environment, and I had an English accent.

There are no conditions of life to which a man cannot get accustomed, especially if he sees them accepted by everyone around him.

In my life, I've lived in very different kinds of places - very tiny rooms when I was young. And you do learn to cope with it. The funny thing is, as you begin to inhabit larger places, it's very interesting how quickly you adapt to your space. What seems enormous at first becomes natural after a few weeks.

Usually, I fly in the day before a concert so your voice can acclimate to the new environment.

But that constant adjustment and adaptation to your new environment, all the variables are the same. There's always a promoter, there's always a rider, there's always a shower, and there's always a stage.

Growing up, I went to many schools, and I had to fit in to many different types of environments with totally different social groups. It helps me out as I move from job to job.

I just can really adapt to any kind of environment.

If your environment is not to your liking, change it!

It was one thing to go to the end of the world; it was quite another thing to make oneself at home there. Even respectability seemed to lose some of its virtue when one practiced it in a tent.

Other seasons come abruptly but ask so little when they do. Winter is the only one that has to be relearned.

Adapting is a common natural way for people to adapt to their environment.

In rural America you need a different set of skills. You get to a city and you have to do a 180.

No, what worries me is that I might in a sense adapt to this environment and come to be comfortable here and not resent it anymore. And I am afraid that as the years go by that I may forget, I may begin to lose my memories of the mountains and the woods and that's what really worries me, that I might lose those memories, and lose that sense of contact with wild nature in general. But I am not afraid they are going to break my spirit.

When you play on foreign pitches, you get used to their conditions.

Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself.

In the scale of life there is a gradual decline in physical variability, as the organism has gathered into itself resources for meeting the exigencies of changing external conditions; and that while in the mindless and motionless plant these resources are at a minimum, their maximum is reached in the mind of man, which, at length, rises to a level with the total order and powers of nature, and in its scientific comprehension of nature is a summary, an epitome of the world.

The choking humidity makes amphibians of us all, in Bombay, breathing water in air; you learn to live with it, and you learn to like it, or you leave.

Physically, you never get used to the cold. It's cold! If it's cold, it's cold! And you go out there, and your body feels it, but I think mentally, living in it, it's not such a shock to you.

I was brought up in Florida, so there isn't much difference between playing there and playing here. The climax are about the same.

Living in Chicago as a country boy, basically, and going to college made a very big impact on me.

Of course, Minneapolis, we think, 'Oh well, it's cold there, lethally cold.' But the reality is you adapt to weather... Humans are consummately adaptable creatures.

I grew up everywhere because my dad was in the Navy. I had to adapt to each environment.

Adaptation is a vital part of a response to the challenge of climate change

It's kind of a shock to your skin, changing climates. It's new water, and new air quality.

It's really amazing how the human mind and body can adapt to new environments. How the once incredible can become so normal.