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You don't often see Bear Grylls in a suit.
You only get one chance at life and you have to grab it boldly.
You're not human if you don't feel fear. But I've learnt to treat fear as an emotion that sharpens me. It's there to give me that edge for what I have to do.
Environmental scientists in Canada said it was impossible for me to get to the Pole in 2004... I said 'no,' it's still OK, and I can still get there, and I did.
Expeditions are escapism. The stuff that we're normally concerned about just doesn't matter out there. Tax returns, gas bill, none of it. Life becomes very simple, it's about moving in a certain direction - north if you're going north - staying warm and not getting eaten. That's it.
I don't think of myself as an explorer but as an athlete.
I'm not particularly gifted; I'm not genetically freakish in any sense; I'm absolutely average.
I've diced with death the most cycling around London. Black cabs are far more dangerous than polar bears.
My Antarctic expedition is just about doable, just feasible and that's what is exciting to me. If I knew it was possible, if I knew I could do it without too much bother, I wouldn't be interested.
What's the nastiest injury I've sustained? Just a frostbitten toe... but thankfully it's still intact.
When I'm skiing, I listen to electronic music. It's repetitive and let's me get into a groove and crank out the miles.
As soon as I arrived in the Indies, in the first island which I found, I took some of the natives by force, in order that they might learn and might give me information of whatever there is in these parts. And so it was that they soon understood us, and we them, either by speech or by signs, and they have been very serviceable.
Each day we understand better what the Indians say, and they us, so that very often we are intelligible to each other.
I believe that there are many herbs and many trees that are worth much in Europe for dyes and for medicines; but I do not know, and this causes me great sorrow. Arriving at this cape, I found the smell of the trees and flowers so delicious that it seemed the pleasantest thing in the world.
I have come to believe that this is a mighty continent which was hitherto unknown.
I propose to construct a new chart for navigating, on which I shall delineate all the sea and lands of the Ocean in their proper positions under their bearings; and further, I propose to prepare a book, and to put down all as it were in a picture, by latitude from the equator, and western longitude.
My desire was not to pass any island without taking possession, so that, one having been taken, the same may be said of all.
The Indians on board said that thence to Cuba was a voyage in their canoes of a day and a half; these being small dug-outs without a sail. Such are their canoes. I departed thence for Cuba, for by the signs the Indians made of its greatness, and of its gold and pearls, I thought that it must be Cipango.
There are trees of a thousand sorts, and all have their several fruits; and I feel the most unhappy man in the world not to know them, for I am well assured that they are all valuable. I bring home specimens of them, and also of the land.
All true meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon, what it means to you.
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