I think fire is so critical in the wild. You can cook with it, you can make tools, you can deter a predator, you can dry your clothes and you get that element of morale that matters so much when you’re stuck in the middle of nowhere.
BEAR GRYLLSUnless you have shelter, fire is going to be very hard and if you have fire, but no water, you’re going to die. They’re all super important.
More Bear Grylls Quotes
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What I’ve learned over the years is that the path less traveled always makes for a more interesting journey. If you simply do what everyone else is doing, how can you ever expect to excel and create something wonderful and unique in your life?
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Exercise helps my back. If I don’t exercise, that’s when it starts to hurt. The pain is a good motivator to run and exercise.
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As a society, we’ve become terrified of failure, but you can’t grow without risking it.
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As a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life.
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Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.
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My favorite moments? Where it’s all going swimmingly, the sun’s out and I’ve got a fire going and a nice snake on the barbecue.
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When I’m filming, survival requires movement. You need your energy, and you’ve got to eat the bad stuff, and survival food is rarely pretty, but you kind of do it. I get in that zone, and I eat the nasty stuff, but I’m not like that when I’m back home.
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To me, adventure has always been to me the connections and bounds you create with people when you’re there. And you can have that anywhere.
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I find skydiving really hard. I broke my back while skydiving when I was in the military, and for 18 months all my nightmares were about falling.
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The hardest thing about my job isn’t the snake bites or the crocodiles, it’s being away from my children. I have a really religious satellite phone call every day back to the boys, wherever we are, whatever time zone, to say goodnight.
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I always had a really natural faith as a kid. Where I knew God existed and it felt very free and pretty wild and natural, and it wasn’t religious.
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One thing I know for sure: it is only by doing what we fear that we can ever truly learn to be brave.
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Why is it that the finish line always tends to appear just after the point at which we most want to give up? is it the universe’s way of reserving the best for those who can give the most? What I do know, from nature, is that the dawn only appears after the darkest hour.
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You’re not human if you don’t feel fear. But I’ve learnt to treat fear as an emotion that sharpens me. It’s there to give me that edge for what I have to do.
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I learnt another valuable lesson that night: listen to the quiet voice inside. Intuition is the noise of the mind.
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