turtles

Warren Buffett is one of the best learning machines on this earth. The turtles which outrun the hares are learning machines. If you stop learning in this world, the world rushes right by you.

People have been on earth in our present form for only about 100,000 years, and in so many ways we__e still ironing out our kinks. These turtles we__e been traveling with, they outrank us in longevity, having earned three more zeros than we. They__e got one hundred million years of success on their resume, and they__e learned something about how to survive in the world. And this, I think, is part of it: they have settled upon peaceful career paths, with a stable rhythm. If humans could survive another one hundred million years, I expect we would no longer find ourselves riding bulls. It__ not so much that I think animals have rights; it__ more that I believe humans have hearts and minds- though I__e yet to see consistent, convincing proof of either. Turtles may seem to lack sense, but they don__ do senseless things. They__e not terribly energetic, yet they do not waste energy_ turtles cannot consider what might happen yet nothing turtles do threatens anyone__ future. Turtles don__ think about the next generation, but they risk and provide all they can to ensure that there will be one. Meanwhile, we profess to love our own offspring above all else, yet above all else it is they from whom we daily steal. We cannot learn to be more like turtles, but from turtles we could learn to be more human. That is the wisdom carried within one hundred million years of survival. What turtles could learn from us, I can__ quite imagine.

Dill said striking a match under a turtle was hateful."Ain't hateful, just persuades him- 's not like you'd chunk him in the fire," Jem growled."How do you know a match don't hurt him?""Turtles can't feel , stupid," said Jem."Were you ever a turtle, huh?

Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help.

I don't mind running with turtles.From book: stuff I think aboutBy Sondra Faye

Human beings can learn valuable lessons in conservation of necessary personal resources for accomplishing the fundamental tenants of life by observing a judiciously paced turtle determinedly and stealthily traversing the world.

The lesson of every extinction, says the Smithsonian__ Doug Erwin, is that we can__ predict what the world will be 5 million years later by looking at the survivors."There will be plenty of surprises. Let__ face it: who would__e predicted the existence of turtles? Who would ever have imagined that an organism would essentially turn itself inside out, pulling its shoulder girdle inside its ribs to form a carapace? If turtles didn__ exist, no vertebrate biologist would__e suggested that anything would do that: he__ have been laughed out of town. The only real prediction you can make is that life will go on. And that it will be interesting.