I do see a lot of the hard end of ecology, and my feeling is that we live on a super-exciting planet but a super-fragile one.
BEAR GRYLLSAnd Jesus, the heart of the Christian faith is the wildest, most radical guy you’d ever come across.
More Bear Grylls Quotes
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I try and eat really healthy when I’m home, but I certainly don’t eat worms and snakes.
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Life doesn’t reward the naturally clever or strong but those who can learn to fight and work hard and never quit.
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For me, my training is a key part of my work as so often my life has depended on being able to move fast and haul myself up and out of something fast!
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Without risk, there can be no growth.
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There is little faith involved in setting out on a journey where the destination is certain and every step in between has been mapped in detail. Bravery, trust, is about leaving camp in the dark, when we do not know the route ahead and cannot be certain we will ever return.
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You don’t need to go to the ends of the earth, you don’t need to climb Everest to have a great adventure, it’s invariably on our doorstep.
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Our fate is determined by how far we are prepared to push ourselves to stay alive – the decisions we make to survive. We must do whatever it takes to endure and make it through alive.
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I’ve fallen down crevasses, been bitten by snakes, been knocked unconscious, had various limbs broken and once, a heavy camera came plunging down which very nearly decapitated me.
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I didn’t want to do eight seasons of How To Build A Fire. The intention was to make something fun and dynamic and about self rescue, not about whittling.
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Being brave isn’t the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.
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When I take kids into the woods, I tell them, “What we’re going to do today is going to be incredibly dangerous.” And you just see 20 smiles go up.
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A friend once asked me what qualities were needed for SAS. I would say to be self-motivated and resilient; to be calm, yet have the ability to smile when it is grim; to be unflappable, be able to react fast and to have an ‘improvise, adapt and overcome’ mentality.
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Change the way you use your time, and you change your life.
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And if you give your heart to a goal, it will repay you. It’s the law of the universe.
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Survival requires us to leave our prejudices at home. It’s about doing whatever it takes – and ultimately those with the biggest heart will win.
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