Quotes About Survival

The earth is a great big orphanage for most animals.

I cleaned up my act because otherwise I would have kicked the bucket.

I've eaten sheep's eyes, the still hot meat from a zebra killed by a lion, and maggots which give you 70 calories to the ounce.

From 1967 to '70, Nigeria fought a war - the Nigeria-Biafra war. And in the middle of that war, I was 14 years old. We spent much of our time with my mother cooking. For the army - my father joined the army as a brigadier - the Biafran army. We were on the Biafran side.

As barbaric is we are, it's a miracle we haven't blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.

I'm a man's man. I go out climbing and live outdoors.

'Plan Nine From Outer Space' for a new generation, 'Battlefield Earth' is set in the year 3000, after the beings from the planet Psychlo have conquered our planet in only nine minutes.

Art was - and is - my biggest outlet. I'd probably die if I didn't do it.

If I hadn't had the outlet of writing and drawing comics, I guess there's a good chance I wouldn't be around today.

I hope to outlive my enemies.

My outlook on life is totally different because my life was almost taken.

Being cut off from the outside world is scary.

I was an outsider as a kid, and I grew up around a lot of violence.

I think I'm just more adaptable now, so danger, overall, seems less dangerous to me.

Humans are selfish, and because of our innate selfishness, I'm very confident that we can overcome any amount of environmental destruction.

I've overcome physical and mental brutality - and fought back.

I grew up feeling like the main obstacles that we were trying to overcome had more to do with how we survive together as a family, and less to do with external relationships that we had with the community.

Fisher's fundamental theorem: "The more highly adapted an organism becomes, the less adaptable it is to any new change." Fisher's example was the giraffe. It is highly adapted to food found up among the tree branches, but so unadaptable to a new situation that it can not even pick up a peanut from the ground at the zoo. The more optimized an organism (organization) is, the more likely that the slack necessary to help it become more effective has been eliminated.

Louisiana 1927

Although they often kill out of season or at night, they usually eat what they kill. I admire them, and so I feel a flicker of distaste for this outsider.

Without the right to self-preservation all of the other rights are meaningless.

On the whole, I try to avoid confrontations with deadly snakes.

Even as the armies of slaves were underfed and dying from hunger, some were forced to wear bizarre tin-plate masks, in hundred-degree heat, to keep them from gaining the slightest nourishment from chewing the cane. The

Life in a box is better than no life at all, I expect. You'd have a chance at least. You could lie there thinking: Well, at least I'm not dead.