Eustace Conway Quotes

United States, Naturalist
September 15, 1961

Eustace Robinson Conway IV is an American naturalist and the subject of the book The Last American Man by Elizabeth Gilbert. He has also been the subject of Adventures in the Simple Life by Sarah Vowel on the weekly radio show This American Life with Ira Glass. He is the owner of the 1,000-acre Turtle Island Preserve in Boone, North Carolina. He is one of the featured personalities on the History channel show Mountain Men.

One thing I encourage a lot of people to realize and do is to just have an adventure.

Eustace Conway
There is only truth to be found - no lies, no shams, no illusions, no hypocrisy. Just a truthful place, where all beings are governed by a set of perfect laws that have never changed and never will.

Eustace Conway
- Truth
- Changed
- Illusions

In studying other cultures, we learn more about ourselves and our relationship to all things in this world.

Eustace Conway
The Last American Man by Elizabeth Gilbert... I don't live inside buildings because buildings are dead places where nothing grows, where water doesn't flow, and where life stops. I don't want to live in a dead place. People say that I don't live in a real world, but it's modern Americans who live in a fake world, because they have stepped outside the natural circle of life.

Eustace Conway
- Dead
- Americans
- Grows
There is not way that you can have a decent life as a man if you aren't awake and aware every moment. Show up for your own life. Don't pass your days in a stupor, content to swallow whatever watery ideas modern society may bottle feed you through the media, satisfied to slumber through life in an instant gratification sugar coma. The most extraordinary gift you've been given is your own humanity, which is about consciousness. So honor that consciousness.

Eustace Conway
- Life
- Ideas
- Humanity