Ray Mears Quotes

#1. Fire-wood makes you warm three times; first collecting it, secondly shifting it and third when you burn it.

Ray Mears

#2. When we're young, we think we are the only species worth knowing. But the more I come to know people, the better I like ravens.

Louise Erdrich

#3. The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.

John Updike

#4. I love Ray Mears. He's brilliant. He's so rude about me in the press, it's outrageous!

Bear Grylls

#5. I've been working with Pat Robertson on Africa debt-relief, and we disagree on virtually everything except certain very specific, inalienable rights, and the truth is that morality and patriotism come in all shapes and sizes.

George Clooney

#6. The bedrock of doubt is the total nothingness of death. Death is a leveler, not because everybody dies, but because nobody understands what death means.

Northrop Frye

#7. Bushcraft is what you carry in your mind and your muscles.

Ray Mears

#8. Knowledge is the key to survival, the real beauty of that is that it doesn't weigh anything.

Ray Mears

#9. The great thing about bushcraft is that wherever you go, the skills go with you.

Ray Mears

#10. You cannot underestimate the importance of preparation.

Ray Mears

#11. I speak Farsi, German, Dari, and I understand Turkish, but I haven't used it since 1985, so I'm a bit rusty.

Navid Negahban

#12. Every character has their reasons - even the characters who do dumb things.

Zoe Saldana

#13. A blunt blade is more dangerous than a sharp one

Ray Mears

#14. This traditional woman grew up in a world where respect for the animals hunted was of paramount importance. A concept that, in many cases, differentiates the native from the non-native hunter.

Ray Mears

#15. Somebody is always doing something that somebody else said couldn't be done.

Evan Esar

#16. America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.

Warren G. Harding