17 Quotes by David Douglas

If something's on fire, or someone's suffering a heart attack, time is the most critical element we've got. Seconds may not sound like a great deal, but if your loved one is seized up with a heart attack ... seconds are very important to you.

Each year between two and five million people worldwide die from lack of safe water and sanitation. Given this dire situation, the creation of a US-based advocacy group is long overdue, ... We know what the problem is and we have the knowledge and resources to save millions of lives - we simply need to extend water to those without it. Water Advocates and other US nonprofits can make enormous strides in helping solve this worldwide crisis by informing the public and ensuring that funding is available for more projects.

In poor plight, weary and travel-soiled, glad at heart, though possessing nothing but a shirt, leather trousers and an old hat, having lost my jacket, neck-kerchief and worn out my shoes.

The communication lines at best are ragged; at worst, they are nonexistent. We're just waiting.

Wilderness has been characterized as barren and unproductive; little can be grown in its sand and rock. But the crops of wilderness have always been its spiritual values – silence and solitude, a sense of awe and gratitude – able to be harvested by any traveler who visits.

It’s so off the charts and off anybody’s radar screen, that place. It might as well be another planet. Just try to find somebody who’s been to Madagascar. Nobody has been to Madagascar.

The wilderness is a place of rest – not in the sense of being motionless, for the lure, after all, is to move, to round the next bend. The rest comes in the isolation from distractions, in the slowing of the daily centrifugal forces that keep us off balance.

I grew up as a cameraman, so it’s much easier for me to shoot it myself. I work with an operator and a crew, but it’s way easier for me to function as a cinematographer, than to have a cinematographer between me and the lens. I don’t need that.