Laurence Gonzales
Laurence Gonzales
feet ground
Well, where am I really? I'm 200 feet off the ground in a manmade maze.
practice finding-yourself one-day
Bureaucracies force us to practice nonsense. And if you rehearse nonsense, you may one day find yourself the victim of it.
gravity duty
Gravity is on duty all of the time.
survival today survivor
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 today. In that sense, survivors don't defeat death, they come to terms with it.
zoos civilization pet
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 are the domestic pets of a human zoo called civilization.
finding-yourself matter where-you-are
To survive you must find yourself then it won't matter where you are.
grateful blessing alive
Count your blessings. Be grateful-- you're alive
mountain summit
The summit is not the only place on the mountain.
wrong-things
The word 'experienced' often refers to someone who's gotten away with doing the wrong thing more frequently than you have.
wall home heart
But what is the way forward? I know what it isn't. It's not, as we once believed, plenty to eat and a home with all the modern conveniences. It's not a 2,000-mile-long wall to keep Mexicans out or more accurate weapons to kill them. It's not a better low-fat meal or a faster computer speed. It's not a deodorant, a car, a soft drink, a skin cream. The way forward is found on a path through the wilderness of the head and heart---reason and emotion. Thinking, knowing, understanding.