I'm not a nerd, I play one on TV.
Knowledge is the key to survival, the real beauty of that is that it doesn't weigh anything.
Bushcraft is what you carry in your mind and your muscles.
A blunt blade is more dangerous than a sharp one
Fire-wood makes you warm three times; first collecting it, secondly shifting it and third when you burn it.
The great thing about bushcraft is that wherever you go, the skills go with you.
You cannot underestimate the importance of preparation.
Life is very, very simple and easy to understand, but we complicate it with the beliefs and ideas that we create.
A mental image gives you a framework upon which to work. It is like the drawing of the architect, or the map of the explorer. Think over this for a few moments until you get the idea firmly fixed in your mind.
What one has most to work and struggle for in painting is to do the work with a great amount of labour and sweat in such a way that it may afterward appear, however much it was laboured upon, to have been done almost quickly and almost without any labour, and very easily, although it was not.
Turns out it was mostly a lie. But, at least for a short while, it was a beautiful one.