“The central symbol for Canada-and this based on numerous instances of its occurrence in both English and French Canadian literature-is undoubtedly Survival, la Survivance.” LiteratureSurvivalInstanceSymbolsCanada Author:Margaret Atwood
“If one is going to offer children stories that underneath the story must be something that will inform, stimulate and guide, I love to be on board. I think anything that resonates with history, as does The Jungle Book and Watership Down, reflects patterns of behavior, power struggles, deprivation, migration, survival, joy, love, betrayal, and all of these things. It's tragic that children are encouraged to ignore history. We ignore history and any literature that is historically based in history. Even though both of those films involved animals, of course they reflect human behavior.” ThinkingChildrenBookFilmJoyLiteratureLove IsAnimalStruggleBehaviorSurvivalBetrayalTragicHuman BehaviorJunglePower Struggle Author:Ben Kingsley
“The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.” LiteratureTermParticularComfortSurvivalNotionCatastrophe Author:Iris Murdoch
“To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.” FightingLiteratureSurvivalDirtyNasty Author:George Orwell
“I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.” ThinkingHumansLiteraturePoorBrainTaughtEvolutionSurvivalGloryIntelligentIntelligenceMemorableSchemesHuman BrainHuman EvolutionBrain ScienceCrowning Glory Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“Because our choices are largely based on survival. But if life is eternal, life is not a question.” IfsLife IsChoicesLiteratureEternalSurvivalEternal LifeOur Choices Author:Neale Donald Walsch
“Ideologies have no heart of their own. They're the whores and angels of our striving selves.” HeartSelfLiteratureSurvivalAngelStriveIdeology Author:John le Carre
“A great deal of anthropological/ethnological literature describes indigenous peoples who live in oneness with the natural world and one another. Survival itself necessitates a borderlessness between inner and outer worlds. At times we still feel a return to that unified state. T.S. Eliot’s designation of our return is ‘through the unknown remembered gate.'” WorldFeelsStillsStatesLiteratureNaturalDealsReturnSurvivalOnenessRememberedGatesIndigenousNatural WorldUnifiedIndigenous PeopleOuter WorldsEliotDesignation Author:John Zerzan
“In Technologized Desire, the cultural pathologies that mark the panic ecstasy and terminal doom of the posthuman condition are powerfully rehearsed in the language of science fiction. Here, images of prosthetic subjects, zombies, cut-ups and armies of the medieval dead actually slip off the pages of literature to become the terminal hauntology of these technologized times. Technologized Desire is nothing less than a brilliant data screen of future memories. Read it well: it's a survival guide for bodies flatlined by the speed of accelerating technology.” WellsBodyDesireLiteratureLanguageMemoriesFictionTechnologyCuttingConditionsSubjectsSurvivalPagesMarkArmyScience FictionSpeedGuidesBrilliantScreensDataEcstasySlipsHuman ConditionPanicZombieDoomMedievalTerminalPathologyProsthetics Author:Arthur Kroker