This section is not directly concerned directly with survival, but it will help you, the reader to begin a harmonization with nature, which humanity has been losing since the time of industrialization.

The first and most important idea is that nature is your friend and if you treat it well it will help you in your survival. Nature provides us with the basic things to help us sustain a healthy life, although it is not as comfortable as out modern day houses. I am not saying that we must abandon out present lifestyle and live in the countryside but we must observe nature and we do not need to re-invent the wheel when we have a new problem to solve.

In a survival situation, you probably have nothing, but if you carry the proposed survival kit at the end of the sections you will have enough to begin with. All the other things you need are all found around you if you look enough and you have enough brains. If you lack the latter then there isn't much you can do, you should have stayed at home watching TV and playing with your play-station.

Back to the serious subjects. Take for example, a wooden handle because the one with your survival knife has been lost. If you are in a woody area toy can use some softwood to carve a handle out.