Quotes About Survival

Wilson called those forces the biophilia hypothesis, which literally means "love of living things" but translates more closely to "Your brain may not remember, but your body will never forget that animals have guarded us since the Stone Age." Why

Así que Louis tuvo que aprender a sobrevivir comiendo ligero a lo largo de todo el día en lugar de llenarse con grandes comidas, a no permitirse estar sediento, como si todos los días se encontrara en medio de una carrera en marcha. El

Todas as manhãs em África acorda uma gazela. Há-de saber que tem de ser mais veloz do que o mais rápido dos leões ou vai ser morta. Todas as manhãs em África acorda um leão. Há-de saber que tem de ser mais veloz do que a gazela mais lenta ou morre à fome. Não interessa se és um leão ou uma gazela - quando nasce o sol, o melhor é correres.

That's because goats eat everything. Only the prickliest survive.

Okay, so primitive man upgraded his hardware with a bigger brain

You ran to eat and to avoid being eaten; you ran to find a mate and impress her, and with her you ran off to start a new life together. You had to love running or you wouldn't live to love anything else.

Snails were freedom fighters' food; you could harvest them on the run and they'd go dormant and keep fresh in your pockets until you were in the clear to cook. The

If you keep just close enough for it to see you, it will keep sprinting away. After about ten or fifteen kilometers' worth of running, it will go into hyperthermia and collapse." Translation: if you can run six miles on a summer day then you, my friend, are a lethal weapon in the animal kingdom.

There are a hundred ways in which a boy can injure—if not indeed kill—himself. The more adventurous he is and the greater his initiative, the more ways he will find. If you protect him from each of the first hundred, he is sure to find the hundred and first. Though most men can look back on their boyhood and tremble at the narrowness of some of their escapes, most boys do in fact survive more or less intact, and the wise father is the trusting father.

Boredom can be a lethal thing on a small island.

It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious he learned the habit from Nature.

He had come to the conclusion that children are tougher and more enduring than Dr. Holt will admit; and that a little carelessness in matters of hygiene and sterilization does not necessarily mean instant death.

mankind was born on earth but was never meant to die here

Our focus is on those wild foods that are widespread, easily recognizable and identifiable, and sufficient to create meals.

Having a little pee in your pants had to be better than being dinner for some redneck.

If I can laugh, I can live.

for no one alive is innocent. Everyone is involved in accumulating points and surviving. Thus, every act of survival is an act of destruction. Every breath destroys universes. We are all murderers.

I had learned very early that not getting caught was just about the solution to every problem. If you were caught then those who hadn't yet been caught had to make an example of you, unless of course you knew the right people.

The number of the Jews murdered in a beastly fashion in the Wilno [Vilna] area and in Lithuania is put at 300,000.

Esse mundo é muito filho da puta, não é? — disse Gus. Angel assentiu. — Mas é o único que nós temos. Gus sentiu um arroubo de amor por aquele seu compatriota fodido.

A lion's work hours are only when he's hungry, once he's satisfied the predator and prey live peacefully together

On a large enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.

I just don't want to die without a few scars.

You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. Every time you don't throw yourself down the stairs, that's a choice. Every time you don't crash your car, you re-enlist.