quotes by Laurence Gonzales
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"We don't understand the power of nature and the world because we don't live with it. Our environment is designed to sustain us. We are the domestic pets of a human zoo called civilization."
— Laurence Gonzales (Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why)
— Laurence Gonzales (Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why)
"The word 'experienced' often refers to someone who's gotten away with doing the wrong thing more frequently than you have."
— Laurence Gonzales (Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why)
— Laurence Gonzales (Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why)
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"Survival is the celebration of choosing life over death. We know we're going to die. We all die. But survival is saying: perhaps not today. In that sense, survivors don't defeat death, they come to terms with it."
— Laurence Gonzales (Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why)
— Laurence Gonzales (Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why)
"I am constantly surrounded by a display of natural wonders...It is beauty surrounded by ugly fear. I write in my log that it's a view of heaven from a seat in hell. (survivor after 53 days at sea)"
— Laurence Gonzales (Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why)
— Laurence Gonzales (Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why)
"To lose everything at such a glorious eternity is far sweeter than to win by plodding through a cautious, painless, featureless life."
— Laurence Gonzales (Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why)
— Laurence Gonzales (Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why)
"The sun beams are always there. The trick is in seeing them."
— Laurence Gonzales (Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why)
— Laurence Gonzales (Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why)
"To deal with reality you must first recognize it as such."
— Laurence Gonzales (Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why)
— Laurence Gonzales (Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why)
"With the illusion that we have dominion over the earth we conclude we have nothing to fear."
— Laurence Gonzales (Everyday Survival: Why Smart People Do Stupid Things)
— Laurence Gonzales (Everyday Survival: Why Smart People Do Stupid Things)

