Quotes About Survival

The earth will survive our most ingenious folly.

Has joy any survival value in the operations of evolution? I suspect that it does; I suspect that the morose and fearful are doomed to quick extinction. Where there is no joy there can be no courage; and without courage all other virtues are useless.

We are slaves in the sense that we depend for our daily survival upon an expand-or-expire agro-industrial empire—a crackpot machine—that the specialists cannot comprehend and the managers cannot manage. Which is, furthermore, devouring world resources at an exponential rate. We are, most of us, dependent employees. …Edward Abbey (1927-1989)

From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm.

Hard times are a-coming, and people without useful, practical skills are going to suffer. Or suffer most.

The black rock was sharp-edged, hot, and hard as corundum; it seemed not merely alien but impervious to life. Yet on the southern face of almost every rock the lichens grew, yellow, rusty-brown, yellow-green, like patches of dirty paint daubed on the stone.

When in doubt about drinking from an unknown spring look for life. If the water is scummed with algae, crawling with worms, grubs, larvae, spiders and liver flukes, be reassured, drink hearty, you'll get nothing worse than dysentery. But if it appears innocent and pure, beware.

Pinto beans without sauce or chili or even much salt; a slice of bread; a tincup of coffee. Out of loyalty to life and the immortal spirit of man, he ate.

An under-privileged juniper tree, living not on water and soil but on memory and hope. And almost alone. To the

O all brave cowboys dead and revived God only knows how you ever survived or stayed out of Hell with souls unshrived.

a bee in a cactus bloom will not be provoked; it stays until the flower wilts. Until closing time.

There is a certain primitive attraction in it," Bondi said, "but what about the future? Are we to spend the rest of our lives shooting animals, chewing skins, hiding out from game wardens and county sheriffs?

On a level of simple personal survival, understanding and forgiveness are crucial... whether in an intimate personal relationship or on a global level.

Two men are walking in the woods. A ferocious grizzly bear charges at them and they start to run. While running, they shout: Man 1: We'll never outrun the bear. Man 2: I don't have to. My only question is "Can I outrun you?

And in heaven's name, who are the public enemies?" exclaimed Dr. Leete. "Are they France, England Germany or hunger, cold and nakedness?

If you can't face Hiroshima in the theatre, you'll eventually end up in Hiroshima itself

Convicts on the main line sent me books from the library. I've always been able to make it if I could read.

Reading taught me that prison had been the crucible that had formed several great writers. Cervantes wrote much of Don Quixote in a prison cell, and Dostoyevski was a mediocre writer until he was sentenced to death, commuted within a few hours of execution, and then sent to prison in Siberia.

In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

Boys. It's late. If you're not gonna kill me, what do you want?

Spirituality is... the awareness that survival is the savage fight between you and yourself.

Only Robinson Crusoe had everything done by Friday.

Hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.

When the earth floods from global warming, the swimmers will rule the world.