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 GRYLLSMy faith isn’t very churchy, it’s a pretty personal, intimate thing and has been a huge source of strength in moments of life and death.
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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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I think viewers quite like it when I’m suffering or eating or drinking something horrible or really up against it in some quicksand or whatever.
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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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Our achievements are generally limited only by the beliefs we impose on ourselves.
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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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It’s unresolved conflict in my life that I have a lovely family and a risky job.
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Textbook survival tells you to stay put. Stop. Wait for rescue. Don’t take any risks. But there’d been a whole host of survival shows like that and I didn’t really want to do that.
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Yes, the Boy Scouts of America should definitely allow gay adult leaders and I think it’s really going to hold them back if they don’t.
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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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The rules of survival never change, whether you’re in a desert or in an arena.
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The greatest journeys all start with a single step.
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All my life the only thing I’ve been good at has been climbing and throwing myself off big things.
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There’s no magic to running far or climbing Everest. Endurance is mental strength. It’s all about heart.
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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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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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