Quotes About Survival

Marry an outdoors woman. Then if you throw her out into the yard on a cold night, she can still survive.

History is direction—but Nature is extension—ergo, everyone gets eaten by a bear.

At the very last moment, Nature would force you to blink your eye. Nature will protect her own.

We would be better off thinking of nature as a tiger than as a docile and compliant automaton that can never threaten our survival.

Expediency is a law of nature. The camel is a wonderful animal, but the desert made the camel.

Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human.

Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, "I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway."

Nature's standard operating procedure, pairing a population explosion with a population crash.

Nature taking its course - hunter and prey, the endless circle of life and death.

The more we exploit nature, The more our options are reduced, until we have only one: to fight for survival.

Acting is a reflex, a mechanism for development and survival. . . . It isn't 'second nature,' it is 'first nature.'

From the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of higher animals, directly follows.

Self-preservation is the first principle of our nature.

There are millions of animal species but, man is the only animal capable of destroying them all.

Mother Nature is a relentless ruthless killer. She don't give a damn if you get home to your family.

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

You can't divorce civilization from nature - we totally depend on it.

Nature ever provides for her own exigencies.

Nature always strikes back. It takes all the running we can do to remain in the same place.

Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones and hair.

Everyone had a Japanese maple, although after Pearl Harbor most of these were patriotically poisoned, ringbarked and extirpated.

Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.

Man is a fugitive from nature.

Horses have hoofs to carry them over frost and snow; hair, to protect them from wind and cold. They eat grass and drink water, and fling up their heels.... Such is the real nature of horses.