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.
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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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 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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As for my diet, I try to eat lean, clean and healthy – nothing too surprising. And I avoid too much meat or dairy because they slow you down.
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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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I hang out all the time with kids and young scouts and I never meet kids who don’t want adventure.
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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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I love Ray Mears. He’s brilliant. He’s so rude about me in the press, it’s outrageous!
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You can’t become a decent horseman until you fall off and get up again, a good number of times. There’s life in a nutshell.
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Without risk, there can be no growth.
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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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And Jesus, the heart of the Christian faith is the wildest, most radical guy you’d ever come across.
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Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.
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But the wild is unpredictable, stuff does happen, and it’s always when you’re least expecting it.
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Life has taught me to be very cautious of a man with a dream, especially a man who has teetered on the edge of life. It gives a fire and recklessness inside that is hard to quantify.
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