Words Worth Noting - September 20, 2022

“It was my survival instinct and force of character which saved me. I never panicked, became stressed or cried. I was even singing. I went there after a little bout of depression but when I found myself suddenly trapped and in a survival situation, everything changed.”

A man found alive after five weeks trapped in underground caves in southwestern France, who survived by eating rotten wood and clay, quoted in Globe & Mail January 24, 2005.