What Scouting says to people is: Every child has a right to have an adventure. Life is about grabbing opportunities
BEAR GRYLLSI 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.
More Bear Grylls Quotes
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My faith is an important part of my life and over the years I’ve learnt that it takes a proud man to say he doesn’t need anything. It has been a quiet strength and a backbone through a lot of difficult times.
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I don’t like expeditions where it is a total lottery whether you live or die. You have to keep those sort of good luck cards for rare occasions!
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Many people find it hard to understand what it is about a mountain that draws men and women to risk their lives on her freezing, icy faces – all for a chance at that single, solitary moment on the top.
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Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.
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I was always brought up to have a cup of tea at halfway up a rock face.
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Scouts should be progressive and should be adapting. If you’re gay or not it’s irrelevant, Scouting values respect.
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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.
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I love Ray Mears. He’s brilliant. He’s so rude about me in the press, it’s outrageous!
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Faith is personal if it’s to be real.
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Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.
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It’s unresolved conflict in my life that I have a lovely family and a risky job.
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Accidents on big mountains happen when people’s ambitions cloud their good judgment. Good climbing is about climbing with heart and with instinct, not ambition and pride.
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Above all, I feel a quiet pride that for the rest of my days I can look at myself in the mirror and know that once upon a time I was good enough. Good enough to call myself a member of the SAS. Some things don’t have a price tag.
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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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I’m terrified of walking into a room full of people. Sitting down at a dinner table with 15 strangers brings me out in a sweat.
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