Bill Nye Quotes

A survival tale peels away the niceties and comforts of civilization. Suddenly, all the technology and education in the world means nothing. I think all of us wonder while reading a survival tale, 'What would I have done in this situation? Would I have made it?'

The rite of passage of learning to build a fire that will burn all night with one match is not an insignificant one in my husband's family, and I grew up camping and backpacking. I love to camp.

Shoes and clothing damage our ability to survive naked in the wilderness.

I actually grew up watching 'Survivorman' and Bear Grylls. I know that pine needles are a good source of vitamin C and just random facts from watching the stuff.

It's the little details I love. How to fletch your arrows with owl feathers, because owls fly silently, so maybe your arrows will, too. How to carry fire in a piece of smouldering fungus wrapped in birchbark. These are the things which help a world come alive.

We live in such a consumer-based world. Everything we do, someone else has provided for us, so there is something really empowering about knowing that once I have found the right pieces of wood, I can start a fire and keep myself warm and skin an animal to eat and make its skin into leather.

You should always carry string, according to my archaeologist father, because then you could at least make a trap to catch animals to survive. According to my grandmother, it was clean underwear.

I talk to children in schools all over the world, and I've found that both boys and girls are fascinated by how hunter-gatherers manage to survive entirely on what's around them in their environment: trees, rocks, animals and plants.

If there's one thing I've learned in my life, it's that curiosity might kill cats, but it doesn't kill people.

Fifty years from now, if an understanding of man's origins, his evolution, his history, his progress is not in the common place of the school books, we shall not exist.

I can't start a fire with two sticks or hunt rabbits or anything like that.

I could start a fire from scratch.

My survival skills are very good for Hollywood. Beyond that, I'm not really sure.

I like the skill set required to be an outdoorsman - to cook food over fire and to climb rocks without ropes, to move around using nothing but yourself and maybe some rudimentary tools.

In order to survive in a very small tribe, you needed to know how to do lots of things for yourself: how to make your tools, how to get food, and how to make your clothes - things most of us today don't need to know. The only thing I need to survive is to know history.

I guess what I find interesting is city folk are the least capable of survival of any human being.

Thanks to my training in Balali village, I am rough and tough.

Surviving is not something you need to learn. You don't need to learn survival skills; you have them already. That's why we're here, all of us, because it's a game of survival anyway.

Reading is essential to human life. When the last reader dies, humanity will be at an end.

That's how things were out here in the wild, she was learning. Dangerous or beautiful. Or both.

During one of my treks through Afghanistan, we lost our corkscrew. We were compelled to live on food and water for several days.

You can't stay in the desert, you go nuts after 24 hours.

There's always hand-to-hand combat. All you need is to come up with a knife, and you'll at least stand a chance. If I get jumped, I'm dead!" I can hear my voice rising in anger. "But you won't! You'll be living up in some tree eating raw squirrels and picking off people with arrows.

When you've been around a snake long enough, you learn how to crawl in the dirt.

Humans become human through intense learning not just of survival skills but of customs and social mores, kinship and social laws-that is, culture.