Quote by Laurence Gonzales

Bureaucracies force us to practice nonsense. And if you rehearse nonsense, you may one day find yourself the victim of it.

— Laurence Gonzales

“I cast myself across the land in search of enlightenment, and here is what I found: that matter and energy are one continuous flow.…

— Laurence Gonzales

“How, I wondered, can we wake up for this amazing journey that is so quickly ended? How can we experience the live performance of…

— Laurence Gonzales

We don't understand the power of nature and the world because we don't live with it. Our environment is designed to sustain us. We…

— Laurence Gonzales

The maddening thing for someone with a Western scientific turn of mind is that it’s not what’s in your pack that separates the quick…

— Laurence Gonzales

“What does brace mean, anyway? Brace. Such an odd word. It comes from the Latin brachium, meaning arm. It means, as its heart, to…

— Laurence Gonzales

Survival is the celebration of choosing life over death. We know we're going to die. We all die. But survival is saying: perhaps not…

— Laurence Gonzales

The summit is not the only place on the mountain.

— Laurence Gonzales

To deal with reality you must first recognize it as such.

— Laurence Gonzales

“With the illusion that we have dominion over the earth we conclude we have nothing to fear.”

— Laurence Gonzales

As you run out of options and energy you must become resigned to your plight. Like it or not you must make a new…

— Laurence Gonzales

We think we believe what we know, but we only truly believe what we feel.

— Laurence Gonzales