Quotes About Survival

The community of life that we see here at any given time isn't just a random collection. It's a collection of successes. It's the remainder that is left over when the failures have disappeared.

I mean that in the absence of food, baboons will organize themselves to find a meal, but in the absence of leopards they will never organize themselves to find a leopard.

With gorilla gone, will there be hope for man?

The rules that govern competition between species are (and must be) very different from the rules that govern competition within species.

We made it back to the airport without getting mugged, stoned, shot at, pounced on, bombed, shelled, garroted, gassed, pitched into, caught in a cross fire, sniped at, blockaded, napalmed, or trip-wired. No one even hit us with a water balloon.

You're captives of a civilizational system that more or less compels you to go on destroying the world in order to live.

We've discovered that any species that exempts itself from the rules of competition ends up destroying the community in order to support its own expansion.

Among the primates only humans are hunters, because among the primates only humans have the biological equipment to make hunting a mainstay of life—and that equipment is strictly intellectual.

The lion that comes across a herd of gazelles doesn't massacre them, as an enemy would. It kills one

I don't want to die, I thought. Not again.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.

A lot of people ask me if I were shipwrecked, and could only have one book, what would it be? I always say 'How to Build a Boat.'

If you want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.

One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve.

That strong mother doesn't tell her cub, Son, stay week so the wolves can get you. She says, toughen up, this is reality we are living in.

Some of us can be examples about going ahead and growing, and some of us, unfortunately, don't make it there, and end up being examples because they had to die. I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death.

A warrior is a hunter. He calculates everything. That's control. Once his calculations are over, he acts. He lets go. That's abandon. A warrior is not a leaf at the mercy of the wind. No one can push him; no one can make him do things against himself or against his better judgment. A warrior is turned to survive, and he survives in the best of all possible fashions.

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

I never wanted to do TV. I just did what I was trained to do through the Special Forces, and I've been doing that from a very young age.

Ice ages have come and gone. Coral reefs have persisted.

Most people are not updated. 50 years ago 1 in 5 children died before age 5, now only 1 in 20!

The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.

I had a very rough childhood and not a happy one and by age 15 I was an old person in many ways. I knew that I had to take care of myself, I um and I always did.

The Atomic Age is here to stay - but are we?