# Quote — Mark Kurlansky, Cod

> Man wants to see nature and evolution as separate from human activities. There is a natural world, and there is man. But man also belongs to the natural world. If he is a ferocious predator, that too is part of evolution. If cod and haddock and other species cannot survive because man kills them, something more adaptable will take their place. Nature, the ultimate pragmatist, doggedly searches for something that works. But as the cockroach demonstrates, what works best in nature does not always appeal to us.

- Author: [Mark Kurlansky](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-kurlansky.md)
- Book: [Cod](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-kurlansky/cod.md)
- Page: 204
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mark_Kurlansky#Cod:_A_Biography_of_the_Fish_That_Changed_the_World_(1997)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-kurlansky/cod/man-wants-to-see

## More from this book

> All revolutions are to some degree about money.

p. 93 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-kurlansky/cod/all-revolutions-are.md)

> The American Revolution was the first great anticolonialist movement. It was about political freedom. But in the minds of its most hard-line revolutionaries, the New England radicals, the central expression of that freedom was the ability to make their own decisions about their own economy.

p. 93 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-kurlansky/cod/the-american-revolution.md)

> In trade, it is an almost infallible natural law that a hungry low-end market, an eager dumping ground for the shoddiest work, is an irresistible market force.

p. 81 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-kurlansky/cod/in-trade-it.md)