Trust your guide, but don’t rely on him or her. In other words, you must be self-reliant.
Disaster often strikes in mysterious ways. And you may be separated from your travel companions at any time. Just as you shouldn’t rely completely on your guide, you shouldn’t rely completely on your partner or partners.
[Surviving] requires clear-headed, rational thinking, mental toughness, and a positive attitude. It requires a never-yielding will to live.
Survival can be harsh at the best of times. If you become one with anything or anyone while you are trying to survive out there, it is with yourself.
Survival is not about “man versus wild.” Nor, at the other extreme, is it about “becoming one” with nature. The key to survival is the middle ground of “going with the flow” of nature.
But make no mistake about it. Nature must be respected, watched, listened to, and considered constantly, if you expect to survive.
Source: Survive! Essential Skills and Tactics to Get You Out of Anywhere—Alive (2008) by Les Stroud with Michael Vlessides
The moral of this “story” is that the gov’t isn’t going to save you. Just about everything he said is against the Left’s philosophy. In a survival situation not only does mankind rule himself he must be able to rule himself to survive.
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