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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 Grylls

When I’m in ‘Man vs. Wild’ mode, it’s not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I’m on reserve power all the time and I’m digging deep – and that’s the magic of it as well, and that’s raw and it’s great.
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Digging Magic Men
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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Kids Natural Religious
What Scouting says to people is: Every child has a right to have an adventure. Life is about grabbing opportunities
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Adventure Children Opportunity
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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Eight Fire Fun
I’ve seen extreme bravery from the least likely of people. Life is about the moments when it’s all gone wrong. That’s when we define ourselves.
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Bravery Gone People
Textbook survival says stay still, don’t take any chances, wait for rescue. That’s a boring TV show. My thing was always, “Listen, shoelace, dead squirrel and no other way down this rock face. You can do this!”
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Rocks Shows Squirrels TV
Americans are cool, if you show just a chink of vulnerability, they respond so much. They’ll pat you on the arm and say, ‘Hey kid, you’re all right’. Brits will respond but they are much more cynical.
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Cynical Hey Kids
It breaks my heart that my father never knew my children. He should have been around for another 25 years.
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Children Father Heart
Life’s full of lots of dream-stealers always telling you you need to do something more sensible. I think it doesn’t matter what your dream is, just fight the dream-stealers and hold onto it.
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Dream Fighting Thinking
I grew up on survival shows and they were always just so…anoraky.
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Grow Survival
There is no feeling like coming home after danger.
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Coming Danger Feelings Home
I am not fearless. I get scared plenty. But I have also learned how to channel that emotion to sharpen me.
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Emotion Fearless Stay Strong
I was always brought up to have a cup of tea at halfway up a rock face.
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Face Rock Tea
The truth is, I need 10 lifetimes to scratch the surface of the things I’d love to do.
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Love Needs Scratches Truth
I said no to the Born Survivor producer three times because I’ve never aspired to be a TV man.
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Men Survivor Three
Unless 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.
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Fire Important Water

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.

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