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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)
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"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)
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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)
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"The summit is not the only place on the mountain."
Laurence Gonzales
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"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)
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"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)
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"The sun beams are always there. The trick is in seeing them."
Laurence Gonzales (Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why)
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"To deal with reality you must first recognize it as such."
Laurence Gonzales (Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why)
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"Bureaucracies force us to practice nonsense. And if you rehearse nonsense, you may one day find yourself the victim of it."
Laurence Gonzales (Everyday Survival: Why Smart People Do Stupid Things)
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"But what is the way forward? I know what it isn't. It's not, as we once believed, plenty to eat and a home with all the modern conveniences. It's not a 2,000-mile-long wall to keep Mexicans out or more accurate weapons to kill them. It's not a better low-fat meal or a faster computer speed. It's not a deodorant, a car, a soft drink, a skin cream. The way forward is found on a path through the wilderness of the head and heart---reason and emotion. Thinking, knowing, understanding."
Laurence Gonzales (Everyday Survival: Why Smart People Do Stupid Things)
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"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)
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