"We were in Georgia, the Republic of Georgia, when they were being bombed. And all we had to eat for like six weeks straight was kasha, buckwheat."

"I started working with my high school teacher who was very, very dedicated to helping me reach this goal. She used to drive me to the university where I did the research after school everyday."

"I think what I've been focusing on is how can we take something that can spill out of people in such a negative way and make it neutral?"

"If you shoot a bear in self defense you have to take the hide and the paws and the head with you and we still had maybe two or so more weeks of floating this river."

"Their formal role in this is to make sure I don't die and my role is to make sure they experience a different part of the world that they wouldn't get to otherwise."

“My path now is to be a leader and to make conditions such that I'm encouraging other people such as yourself have those sorts of adventures”

“I want to be one of those ladies that's dirty every day and slugging through places without trails.”

"I'd say within the last 20 years maybe about 15 of those years we've seen a lot of changes in our climates with floods, erosions, fall storms."

"When we went back, again, we just listened. We didn't have any questions, we didn't have any ideas, and that space for communication grew back."

"I don't think climate change is something we should just wait off until disaster. I just think we need to be more prepped and figure out how far ahead can we get our stock up?"