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“There are no magics or elves / Or timely godmothers to guide us. We are lost, must / Wizard a track through our own screaming weed.”

Lost Magic Survival Track Guides Weed Wizards Timely Godmother

Book:The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks

Source: The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks

“I grew up in the north woods of Canada. You had to know certain things about survival. Wilderness survival courses weren't very formalized when I was growing up, but I was taught certain things about what to do if I got lost in the woods.”

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Book:Waltzing Again: New and Selected Conversations with Margaret Atwood

Source: Waltzing Again: New and Selected Conversations with Margaret Atwood

“Always retain the ability to walk away, without sentimentality, from a situation that felt unmanageable. That was a basic rule of survival. Don't lift a finger for a lost cause.”

Lost Felt Causes Ability Walks Situation Survival Fingers Lifts Sentimentality Lost Cause

Author:Steig Larsson

“The man with the knapsack is never lost. No matter whither he may stray, his food and shelter are right with him, and home is wherever he may choose to stop.”

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Author:Horace Kephart

“Holy smoke! We lost our last match and there's a storm coming! Party On! A flash flood swept away all our gear and we're twenty miles from the trailhead! Party On! My femur bone's sticking through my skin and I've gotta cross that river! Party On!”

Lasts Lost Party Holy Survival Rivers Crosses Skins Twenties Bones Storm Miles Smoke Flash Flood Gears Swept Away Storms Coming Flash Floods

Book:98. 6 Degrees: The Art of Keeping Your Ass Alive

Source: 98. 6 Degrees: The Art of Keeping Your Ass Alive

“For a man who is lost, the three greatest dangers in order of importance, are Fear, Cold, and Hunger. He may endure extreme hunger for a week, and extreme cold for a day, but extreme fear may undo him an hour. There is no way of guarding against this greatest danger except by assuring him that he is fortified against the other two.”

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Book:Woodcraft and Indian Lore: A Classic Guide from a Founding Father of the Boy Scouts of America

Source: Woodcraft and Indian Lore: A Classic Guide from a Founding Father of the Boy Scouts of America

“Getting lost in a place like this you can almost guarantee that you aren't going to make it out here.”

Lost Survival Guarantees Guarantees That Getting Lost

Author:Joe Teti

“I have been a vegetarian for about 10 years. And it really was due to the reading that I did. And they explain so that you understand why it's important for the planet's survival along with compassion for animals. It certainly made it much easier for me. I lost weight really fast. My mother died from cancer so this is all very personal to me. And I just would like the planet to be a better place. And I think you'll find a vegetarian diet to be really incredible these days”

“So many of my family and friends had lost their battles against cancer. What could I do that my relatives and friends had not? What could I do that would be different?”

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Author:Michael Milken

“On the Web, usability is a necessary condition for survival. If a website is difficult to use, people leave. If the homepage fails to clearly state what a company offers and what users can do on the site, people leave. If users get lost on a website, they leave. If a website's information is hard to read or doesn't answer users' key questions, they leave. Note a pattern here?”

People Ifs Hard States Use Lost Difficult Can Do Answers Company Failing Conditions Information Keys Offers Survival Notes Patterns Users Site Website Usability

Author:Jakob Nielsen

“Paralysis seems to happen on the steepest slope of the survival arc—where almost all hope is lost, when escape seems impossible, and when the situation is unfamiliar to the extreme.”

Seems Happens Lost Situation Impossible Survival Extremes Unfamiliar Arcs Slopes Paralysis

Author:Amanda Ripley

“The Trojans lost the war because they fell for a really dumb trick. hey, there's a gigantic wooden horse outside and all the Greeks have left. Let's bring it inside! Not a formula for long-term survival. Now if they had formed a task force to study the Trojan Horse and report back to a committee, everyone wouldn't have been massacred.. Who says middle management is useless?”