Ray Mears famous quotes

Knowledge is the key to survival, the real beauty of that is that it doesn't weigh anything.
-- Ray Mears

#Real #Keys #Survival

A blunt blade is more dangerous than a sharp one
-- Ray Mears

#Blunt #Blades #Dangerous

Bushcraft is what you carry in your mind and your muscles.
-- Ray Mears

#Mind #Muscles

Fire-wood makes you warm three times; first collecting it, secondly shifting it and third when you burn it.
-- Ray Mears

#Fire #Woods #Shifting

The great thing about bushcraft is that wherever you go, the skills go with you.
-- Ray Mears

#Skills #Great Things

You cannot underestimate the importance of preparation.
-- Ray Mears

#Preparation #Underestimate #Importance

I'd rather feel something for real than pretend it's not what it is.

Well, I think that the image is a part of me. I wear the baggy pants, the hats, the whole nine. And you know, I may add a little for the excitement and the intrigue in the videos, but my family has told me that little air of mystery that surrounds me is for real.

A visual understanding of great composition and how to use a camera and expensive lenses can be learned, but drive and a real hunger for making photos and telling stories... I don't think that part can be learned. You either have that inside, or you don't.

Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe. There are an infinite number of patterns, some of which are known; those still unknown hold the key to unresolved enigmas and paradoxes.

Two different things. Work is survival, and love sustains you. You have work anytime. But love? Not always.

Re-vision -- the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction - is for women more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival.

... passion for survival is the great theme of women's poetry.

Reverse Darwinism: survival of the most idiotic.

We have ourselves to save.

But just get through this day. That's all you have to do.