"I can take off these clothes you see now, and I'd be able to survive out on the land," he said.

"But you're going to have to grow up fast if you want to survive out here."

How had he survived out here, alone and without his people?

I'm giving the some credit for understanding that trust is necessary if they are going to survive the fall out.

It was the only way they had survived out here without her mother.

The chances of being able to survive out here on their own were not very good.

But they didn't think Sally would survive out in the valley alone.

He looked into her troubled eyes and thought, Child, how do you survive out there?

None of them could survive out here for a week let alone a season!

Otherwise he might not survive out here through the season.