Quotes About Survival

Toat? lumea omoar? pe toat? lumea într-un fel sau altul. Pescuitul m? omoar? în aceeaÈ™i m?sur? în care m? È›ine în via??.

The history of man is the record of a hungry creature in search of food. Wherever food was plentiful, thither man has travelled to make his home. - Page 22

When one historical period is replaced by another, there is always a group of people left over from the old society

Having the possibility to make decisions about what to do with one's life is a great privilege. As far as most people on this planet are concerned, life is simply about survival.

A lo largo de la historia, muy pocas personas han podido dedicarse sin más a algo distinto de sobrevivir. Cierto es que nunca han podido hacerlo tantas como hoy. Pero aun así la mitad de la humanidad, como mínimo, vive hoy sin opciones.

El hecho de que hayamos desarrollado la capacidad intelectual guarda relación, lógicamente, con la supervivencia. En último término, lo único que queremos es sobrevivir. Queremos vivir, no morir. Cada vez que veo a una persona rebuscando en los contenedores de basura veo ante mí ese sencillo axioma: queremos vivir. A cualquier precio.

Dos conceptos resumen lo que ha sido y, probablemente, también lo que va a ser: supervivencia y destrucción.

self-preservation was more important than revenge, and

The great temptation of our lives is to deny our role as chosen people and to allow ourselves to be trapped in the worries of our daily lives. Without the word that keeps lifting us up as God's chosen people, we remain, or become, small people, stuck in the complaints that emerge from our daily struggle to survive.

Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.

If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.

Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength.

I have heard of a man lost in the woods and dying of famine and exhaustion at the foot of a tree, whose loneliness was relieved by the grotesque visions with which, owing to bodily weakness, his diseased imagination surrounded him, and which he believed to be real. So also, owing to bodily and mental health and strength, we may be continually cheered by a like but more normal and natural society, and come to know that we are never alone.

Man is an animal who more than any other can adapt himself to all climates and circumstances.

Cold and hunger seem more friendly to my nature than those methods which men have adopted and advise to ward them off.

It is a surprising and memorable, as well as valuable experience, to be lost in the woods any time.

Some of you, we all know, are poor, find it hard to live, are sometimes, as it were, gasping for breath.

At present men make shift to wear what they can get. Like shipwrecked sailors, they put on what they can find on the beach, and at a little distance, whether of space or time, laugh at each other's masquerade.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

To many creatures there is in this sense but one necessary of life, Food.

Se uma planta não pode viver de acordo com sua natureza, ela morre. O mesmo ocorre com um homem.

None of the brute creation requires more than Food and Shelter

Si una planta no puede vivir de acuerdo con su naturaleza muere, y lo mismo le ocurre al hombre.

Seit vielen Jahren haben sich nunmehr die Menschen in den Wald begeben, um Brenn- und Baustoffe zu beschaffen. Der Neuengländer und der Neuholländer, der Pariser und der Kelte, der Bauer und Robin Hood, Goody Blake und Harry Gill, in den meisten Teilen der Welt der Fürst und der Landmann, der Gelehrte und der Wilde, alle brauchen gleichermaßen ein paar Zweiglein aus dem Wald, um sich zu wärmen und ihr Essen zu kochen. Auch ich kam nicht ohne aus.