As if my whole life up to that time had somehow been safe and now I would ruin all that because, you know, catamarans flip over.
Live in sound, always in noise. Perhaps because it is so constant, the art of listening to them falls off, and so many things they say are not heard, are swallowed in the overall
Heron,
Will, have you been paying attention to the number of times we had to go one passage farther than the first left?I've been trying to. Why?This place is really getting to me. I don't like the idea of s...
Which Brian had done. They had taken off and that was the last of the conversation. There had been the initial excitement, of course. He had never flown in a single-engine plane before and to be sitti...
When he sat alone in the darkness and cried and was done, all done with it, nothing had changed. His leg still hurt, it was still dark, he was still alone and the self-pity had accomplished nothing.
There is always a solution. For everything. Always. Sometimes it isn't pretty and takes a little longer, but there is still a solution.
I know that my life on boats has been about this: not the sailing or the sea so much as learning about self. And almost every boat I have had has taught me something.
He could not play the game without hope; could not play the game without a dream. They had taken it all away from him now, they had turned away from him and there was nothing for him now. The plane go...
And doing what is good for you is always the worst thing. Even if it works out all right in the end, it is the worst thing when it first happens—just the way things that seem good for you can turn out...
The most important rule of survival, which was that feeling sorry for yourself didn’t work.
Run
Most important rule of survival, which was that feeling sorry for yourself didn’t work.
Hundred-mile
Gun
Awful,
While now and then you hear somebody talking about how . . . beautiful and elegant the predator-prey relationship is, how natural and proper the death of the prey is, it is usually so much misundersto...
We don’t like to think of ourselves as prey—it is a lessening thought—but the truth is that in our arrogance and so-called knowledge we forget that we are not unique. We are part of nature as much as...
Simple. Keep it simple. I am Brian Robeson. I have been in a plane crash. I am going to find some food. I am going to find some berries. He
Perhaps when I am grown I will not know anything. Perhaps that is the way it works, the way it is with growing. When you grow, you start to unlearn things.