The most important rule of survival, which was that feeling sorry for yourself didn’t work.
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...
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...
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.
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.
Initially, he worried that he might be going crazy. But then he decided if you felt you were crazy you weren't really crazy because he had heard somewhere that crazy people didn't know they were insan...
In measured time forty-seven days had passed since the crash. Forty-two days, he thought, since he had died and been born as the new Brian. When the plane had come and gone it had put him down, gutted...
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.
Brian looked back and for a moment felt afraid because the wolf was so... so right. He knew Brian, knew him and owned him and chose not to do anything to him. But the fear moved then, moved away,and B...
And the last thought he had that morning as he closed his eyes was: I hope the tornado hit the moose.
Most important rule of survival, which was that feeling sorry for yourself didn’t work.
We have grown away from knowledge, away from knowing what something is really like, toward knowing only what somebody else it is like. There seems to be a desire to ignore the truth in favor of drama...
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...
So this summer, this first summer when he was allowed to have visitation rights with his father, with the divorce only one month old, Brian was heading north. His father was a mechanical engineer who...
Of course, the sea has tried to kill me on several occasions, has timed itself to coincide with my stupidity and put an end to me. Here in this beautiful lagoon, with time to think of things, and with...
My name is Brian Robeson and I am thirteen years old and I am alone in the north woods of Canada.
My name is Brian Robeson and I am thirteen years old and I am alone in the north woods of Canada. All
Maybe it was always that way, discoveries happened because they needed to happen.
In a real situation, like when I was here before, there were things wrong—going wrong. The plane didn’t land and set me on the shore. It crashed. A man was dead. I was hurt. I didn’t know anything. No...
If you look at it from the right point of view, lying is just good manners.