We got to get a philosophy section here! To me, it's all about tools. Just as stated elsewhere, Your mind is the ultimit weapon.Your body dose the minds bidding. The tools you choose augment your bodies abillities. So, first is: Honesty, Respect, Courage, Love, Selfsacrifice, and Honor for these you need to reason well. Then is knowlege of woods craft ( and a whole bunch of other things ).Then comes your choice of tools. Man is a creature of tool. We need tools to protect us from those things in our environment that can kill us. Whether you buy your tools or create your own tools, chooes well, because if a tool fails it can have rather drastic repercussions. Nature is at best ambivillant about our efforts at wilderness( or any other) living. With enough knowlege and a large enough group of us with enough old ones to teach us the old sustainable ways, we can do very well. But at any point, equipment failure, poor descisions, or simply your body being unable to do somthing... There aren't any garantees. Tomorrow is not promissed and no one get out of this life alive. The best I can do is the best I can do. And when the end comes thats OK too. Respectfully; Jim