Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended. And this is all very natural and organic and in tune with mysterious cycles of the cosmos, which believes that there's nothing like millions of years of really frustrating trial and error to give a species moral fiber and, in some cases, backbone.
Interpretation
Species evolve through natural processes and adapt through trial and error.
This quote by Terry Pratchett highlights the natural evolution of species, suggesting that adaptation and change are part of a larger cosmic cycle. It emphasizes that through long periods of challenges and experiences, species gain resilience, moral strength, and the foundation for their existence, reinforcing the idea that nature operates organically and instinctively over time.
In practice
In a speech about environmental conservation, one might use this quote to highlight the importance of natural processes.
And then Jack chopped down what was the world's last beanstalk, adding murder and ecological terrorism to the theft, enticement, and trespass charges already mentioned, and all the giant's children didn't have a daddy anymore. But he got away with it and lived happily ever after, without so much as a guilty twinge about what he had done...which proves that you can be excused for just about anything if you are a hero, because no one asks inconvenient questions.
They've got something they do it with, I think it's called a mocracy, and it means everyone in the whole country can say who the new Tyrant is. One man ... one vet. ... Everyone has ... the vet. Except for women, of course. And children. And criminals. And slaves. And stupid people. And people of foreign extraction. And people disapproved of for, er, various reasons. And lots of other people. But everyone apart from them. It's a very enlightened civilization.
Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it.
You can't trample infidels when you're a tortoise. I mean, all you could do is give them a meaningful look.
Any fool could be a witch with a runic knife, but it took skill to be one with an apple corer.
People look down on stuff like geography and meteorology, and not only because they're standing on one and being soaked by the other. They don't look quite like real science. But geography is only physics slowed down and with a few trees stuck on it, and meteorology is full of excitingly fashionable chaos and complexity. And summer isn't a time. It's a place as well. Summer is a moving creature and likes to go south for the winter.
There ought to be gardens for all months in the year, in which, severally, things of beauty may be then in season.
You would have thought that our first priority would be to ask what the ecologists are finding out, because we have to live within the conditions and principles they define. Instead, we've elevated the economy above ecology.
I want my body to help fertilize the growth of a cactus or cliff rose or sagebrush or tree.
The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss
I know there is pain when sawmills close and people lose jobs, but we have to make a choice. We need water and we need these forests.
The Rose is without 'why'—she blooms because she blooms.
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