Survival Quotes - Page 30

Protecting biodiversity is just as important and critical to the survival of mankind as stabilizing the climate. Species protection and climate are interdependent.

You need to be hyper-aware because it's your survival at stake.

I have to say, music was always my self preservation survival technique. This sort of sacred space in my life and in my mind.

We can navigate by looking at ant mounds.

The terrain is thinner, the vegetation is greener, that's a good sign we're getting close to the coast.

We've got a lot to gain and nothing to lose.

The faster you can signal for rescue, the faster you get out of that situation.

I'm a combat diver, I've never done something like this.

I'm in the woods with Dr. Doolittle.

Sometimes survival is the worst alternative there is

Survival's the thing, isn't it?

Survival has its own etiquette.

They're kind of baby steps. We haven't made any measurable impact on the mortality rate or survival of this disease.

Most of us have just learned to exercise our survival muscle. It's time to build our victory muscle.

I've always believed in survival.

Fear is a survival tool not a handicap.

Failure and well-disguised cowardice are more human and more beloved.

If our supreme value is the development of the Western tradition - of a man for whom the highest thing in life is man, for whom love for man, respect for man, and the dignity of man, are supreme values - then we cannot ask the question that says, "if it is better for our survival, might we drop these values?"

Fear shuts people down. When you feel safe, your brain is free to soar. When you feel in danger, your brain goes into survival mode, not peak performance mode. Too many people feel unsafe at work, under toxic pressures, and stretched too thin. They are literally about to snap. Within an atmosphere of trust and what I call connection, a supervisor can create conditions under which people's brains can set aside fear and fly high.

it will be objected that a constantly increasing population makes resistance and conservation a hopeless battle. this is true. unless a way is found to stabilize the nation's population, the parks can not be saved. or anything else worth a damn. wilderness preservation, like a hundred other good causes, will be forgotten under the overwhelming pressure of a struggle for mere survival and sanity in a completely urbanized, completely industrialized, ever more crowded environment. for my own part i would rather take my chances in a thermonuclear war than live in such a world.

I did bronze survival swimming. I could save people in a bronzey kind of way.

[Children should contribute] to a family's essential survival and happiness. [In] an urban society, children are ... robbed of the opportunity to do genuinely responsible work.

How can the public choose sides, when one side has nothing left to surrender? Not until the right is prepared to lose on principles will we ever hope to win this culture war on which the survival of our nation depends.

I've learned survival secrets from being on camera, and then translated them into everyday life.

That's what civilization sometimes did to threats, real or perceived. They walled them off. Us against them. Survival of the fittest. You die so I can live.