Quotes by Ben Fogle - Page 2

I have spent time in many of the world's popular wilderness locations and I would say Nepal should be proud. It is an example of man repairing the damage he has done.
Ben Fogle /
Damage
Nepal
Repairing
Wilderness
Time Man World
Time Man Done
Locations
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Broadcasters and production companies often don't appreciate the complexities of viewing habits, but Gogglebox has highlighted how in-depth people go when watching TV.
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Broadcasters
Watching Tv
Complexities
Habits
In-Depth
Viewing
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If you look at the positives, if you test yourself and challenge yourself... I describe myself as a 'yes' person. If you say no to too many things, you think 'what if'.
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What If
Challenge
Describe
Positives
Test
Yes
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I'm the son of a vet and grew up with golden retrievers. Dogs have always loomed large in our lives but labradors have the nicest personalities: kind, loyal and caring.
Ben Fogle /
Caring
Golden
Loyal
Dogs
Nicest
Personalities
Vet
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Part of the beauty of wilderness schooling is that the overheads are very low. You want a classroom? Build a shelter from nature's store. You want to eat? Forage for it.
Ben Fogle /
Classroom
Schooling
Shelter
Wilderness
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As our focus turns to the oceans and the seemingly impossible task of repairing our marine habitat, we could look at Everest as a fine example of turning back the clock.
Ben Fogle /
Clock
Everest
Example
Fine
Focus
Habitat
Impossible
Marine
Repairing
Turns
Turning
Oceans
Seemingly
Task
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There are a lot of people that I think look very good - Bryan Ferry and Jude Law dress really well, Steve McQueen was cool, and all the James Bonds have been very dapper.
Ben Fogle /
Bryan
Ferry
Mcqueen
Bonds
Cool Good Look
James
Jude
Steve
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Reading aloud could be humiliating, I was shy about doing it. Bear in mind I failed my English GCSE and A levels, which goes to prove that if I can embrace it, so can anyone.
Ben Fogle /
Embrace
Humiliating
Levels
Prove
Reading
Shy
Aloud
Bear
Failed
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I saw firsthand the devastating consequences of poaching. I saw elephants with ivory hacked from their faces and the lengths private parks go to protect their precious wildlife.
Ben Fogle /
Elephants
Faces
Hacked
Ivory
Parks
Wildlife
Consequences
Devastating
Firsthand
Precious
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Although I'm a city boy, I am a rural person at heart - and that comes from school. I'd lived near Marble Arch in London and it was fantastic to be surrounded by fields and trees.
Ben Fogle /
Fields
London
Marble
Although
Arch
Near
Rural
Surrounded
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My wife Marina likes salad and fish and I have reduced my meat consumption to just three times a week. It wouldn't take much to go vegetarian and I may well make that decision soon.
Ben Fogle /
Consumption
Meat
Salad
Vegetarian
Fish
Reduced
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I eventually realised you don't have to understand every single word, and that reading in your head doesn't have to be perfect. Once I took that pressure off, it gave me confidence.
Ben Fogle /
Realised
Single Word
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I think we are becoming more obsessed about getting a certain amount of likes on our Twitter and Instagram accounts rather than actually living a proper, real, honest and organic life.
Ben Fogle /
Accounts
Life Living More
Organic
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The wilderness rescued me. I have been shaped by my experiences in the great outdoors. Feeling comfortable in the wild gave me the confidence to be who I am, not who others want me to be.
Ben Fogle /
Confidence
Comfortable
Great I Am Me
Wild
Great Me I Am
Experiences
Feeling
Gave
Shaped
Outdoors
Rescued
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I don't think you can ever get closer to the natural world, than just a man - as in mankind - in an ocean, just you and it. It's not about conquering the ocean, it's about working with it.
Ben Fogle /
Ocean
Mankind
Natural World
Closer
Conquering
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I really, really loved Fair Isle. I'd always wanted to go there. It's so beautiful and a very small but very international community. Every nationality that you can imagine have settled there.
Ben Fogle /
Community
Imagine
International
International Community
Isle
Nationality
Fair
Settled
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I got rounded up by the police in Quito as I didn't have my passport with me. I was in prison for a night, which was pretty frightening, made more so when one of my male companions started crying.
Ben Fogle /
Companions
Crying
Passport
Rounded
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I'd quite like to run the Great Wall of China. I've never been to China and there's something about the Great Wall of China that is so iconic and evocative. It's only 3,000 miles. It's not that far.
Ben Fogle /
China
Great Wall
Iconic
Miles
Wall
Quite
Run
Evocative
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I would hide behind my parents' legs at social events, I was even shy in front of my sisters. I was a really, really ridiculously shy boy. But the one thing I took from my public school education was confidence.
Ben Fogle /
Legs
Public School
Sisters
Hide
Ridiculously
The One Thing
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I'd love to go to a remote part of the world or maroon myself on a tropical island, and shoot the whole thing myself. I've always adventured with other people and I'd like to spend some time completely on my own.
Ben Fogle /
Tropical
Love Time Myself
Island
Remote
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People are being overwhelmed with social issues, political problems and economic problems - and this notion of giving everything up and going to live off-grid and to have a simpler way of life is quite attractive.
Ben Fogle /
Attractive
Economic Problems
Giving
Notion
Overwhelmed
Social Issues
Life Political People
Simpler
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We tend to default to complacency. Stick to the easy option. We all do it. We've tried to create a business model and society around us that is as easy and boxed as possible. We love creating boundaries and borders.
Ben Fogle /
Business
Society
Borders
Boundaries
Complacency
Creating
Default
Easy
Business Model
Possible
Create
Option
Model
Stick
Tend
Tried
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The jungle is my least favourite environment. It's always damp, and everything tries to bite you, whether it's flora or fauna. But I think it's important to face your fears and not just go for the comfortable option.
Ben Fogle /
Comfortable
Damp
Environment
Favourite
Flora
Important
Jungle
Always Face Your
Face
Bite
Option
Fears
Least
Tries
Whether
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I loathed my first term boarding at Bryanston school in Dorset. I hated being away from home; I think I had my parents in tears every time I spoke to them. I regret being so spoilt because within two terms I loved it.
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Home
Hated
Regret
School
Spoilt
Tears
Term
Within
Away
Boarding
Loved
Every Time
First Term
Parents
Terms
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I am honoured to be taking part in the Diamond Jubilee flotilla along the Thames in my 20-foot rowing boat. The energy levels will be high, partly because I'm planning to ply the crew with thermos flasks filled with Typhoo!
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Boat
Crew
Diamond
Filled
Jubilee
Levels
Planning
Rowing
Thames
Honoured
Partly
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I'm a naturally upbeat person. Friends sometimes compare me to a labrador puppy, and I take that as a great compliment. I love life, I love people and I've got loads of energy right up to the moment when I'm suddenly asleep.
Ben Fogle /
Compare
Compliment
Love Life
Puppy
Upbeat
Life Love Great
Asleep
Loads
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On the face of it there is a pristine white sandy beach, but within an hour, around 100 of us can collect up to 250-300 kilos of rubbish. It's mostly bits of plastic, fishing line, nylon, bottle caps. We've found everything.
Ben Fogle /
Beach
Bits
Caps
Fishing
Plastic
Pristine
Rubbish
Sandy
Bottle
Collect
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We so love to stereotype people in this country - I can relate to that myself as I've experienced it. By taking on challenges over the years, I've tried to show people I'm not just some 'posh boy' and that there's far more to me.
Ben Fogle /
Posh
Stereotype
Show People
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Geography was the lesson I always looked forward to most. It was a form of escapism. It could be bleak midwinter outside but inside you're learning about African farming methods or the Great Lakes. No other lesson had that excitement.
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Bleak
Escapism
Excitement
Farming
Geography
Great Lakes
Lakes
Lesson
Methods
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After university, I was desperate to be an ambassador. It went back to geography: I loved the idea of living in exotic and exciting countries, but still driving a Land Rover and having tea. I failed the Foreign Office exams three times.
Ben Fogle /
Desperate
Driving
Exotic
Geography
Office
Tea
University
Ambassador
Countries
Failed
Exams
Foreign
Rover
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Where once Lego offered a whimsical form of escapism into the world of the subconscious, encouraging creativity and imagination, it's transformed into a rigid 'box ticking' discipline where children are encouraged to build by conformity.
Ben Fogle /
Imagination
Conformity
Discipline
Escapism
Form
Subconscious
Transformed
Whimsical
Build
Box
Encouraged
Lego
Offered
Rigid
Ticking
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Hopepunk is a spirit or a mood. It isn't an actual thing. It is a feeling. It is the Scandinavian concept of 'hygge' or 'coziness' of the mind. It is a warm, happy, charming, uplifting concept that leaves you with a fuzzy feeling in your tummy.
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Uplifting
Charming
Fuzzy
Mood
Warm
Actual
Concept
Leaves
Scandinavian
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I've had enough of the bleak headlines and divisive politics, dark TV dramas and hate-filled social media. I'm embracing a new movement with a slightly ridiculous name and a single mission, to make the world a better place. It's called 'hopepunk'.
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Better Place
Bleak
Had Enough
Headlines
Politics Enough World
Divisive
Dramas
Embracing
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Ivory is quickly becoming the new blood diamond of Africa and one that fuels militia battles. Some of the most notorious armed groups on the continent, including the Lord's Resistance Army, are hunting down elephants and using the tusks to buy weapons.
Ben Fogle /
Diamond
Elephants
Hunting
Ivory
Notorious
Resistance
Weapons
Armed
Battles
Continent
Fuels
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What I miss is being close to nature - collecting your own water and generating your own electricity, catching your own food. I still dream of doing that with my own family, even if it's just for a year-long experiment, I would love to have tried that.
Ben Fogle /
Dream
Catching
Collecting
Electricity
My Own
Water
Love Nature Family
Miss
Close
Experiment
Generating
Tried
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I stayed with a family in the bush in Alaska and there were absolutely swarms of mosquitos. The crew were wearing full body nets but the family weren't, so I decided that if I was going to do things properly I wouldn't wear them either. I was eaten alive!
Ben Fogle /
Alaska
Crew
Eaten
Nets
Properly
Stayed
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When I reached the summit of Everest, I scooped some ice into my drinking bottle as I'd run out of water and hoped it would melt. After I got back to base camp, I decided to keep it, so I had a special bottle made with an inscription - it's my lucky water.
Ben Fogle /
Decided
Drinking
Everest
Ice
Lucky
Special
Summit
Water
Base
Bottle
Camp
Run
Hoped
Inscription
Melt
Reached
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I like collecting things, much to my wife's annoyance. I keep mementoes because I'm proud of all the things I've done, but also to remind myself, when I'm having a difficult time at home, that there are always tougher, harder things to get through in life.
Ben Fogle /
Annoyance
Collecting
Life Time Home
Difficult Time
Remind
Tougher
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Armies and former soldiers are working in the field to help protect elephants. Some have suggested staining the ivory; cameras and trackers have even been embedded within the tusk; others have arranged for tusks to be removed pre-emptively by conservationists.
Ben Fogle /
Cameras
Elephants
Embedded
Former
Ivory
Armies
Soldiers
Suggested
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Some people confuse confidence with arrogance. There's no doubt in the business world there are a few big egos and I think arrogance can get in the way. But if you have the confidence to go to your higher superior and say this is wrong, it can make a difference.
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Arrogance
Business World
No Doubt
Business World Your
Confuse
Egos
Make A Difference
Superior
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We're a much more touchy-feely, hands-on generation than our fathers but juggling work, family and social life and trying to be romantic and keep yourself fit is really hard. I want to be the perfect dad but you can't be the perfect dad unless you compromise elsewhere.
Ben Fogle /
Compromise
Elsewhere
Juggling
Social Life
Life Family Work
Life Work Family
Fathers
Hands-On
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I remembered reading about a disease called Leishmaniasis, which matched my symptoms. I'd always thought it was an old wives' tale - a sand fly bite that eats your flesh. But when I looked on the internet and saw pictures of people who had it, their lesions looked like mine.
Ben Fogle /
Flesh
Matched
Remembered
Sand
Symptoms
Bite
Eats
Tale
Wives
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In some ways, I'm in danger of doing too many things to be able to appreciate and enjoy them. I look forward to thinking back to carrying the Olympic torch, or going to the Royal Wedding, when I'm in the middle of the ocean on my own far from anywhere - that's when I'll relive those moments.
Ben Fogle /
Ocean
Wedding
Danger
Royal
Carrying
Olympic
Relive
Torch
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We as humans, we're not solitary people, we're like dogs, we like to live in packs and know about one another. And, if anything, fame is people trying to attain community on a mass scale, because when you become famous wherever you go people know about what you've done and what you're about to do.
Ben Fogle /
Famous
Fame
Humans
Mass
Packs
Solitary
Scale
Attain
Dogs
Wherever
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Many locals in east Africa are calling for fences to separate wildlife and people. They argue it will reduce conflict and also make it easier to protect the wildlife from poachers. From my experience in Tanzania, no fence and no militia will hold back the tide of poachers drawn by the huge sums of money at stake.
Ben Fogle /
Calling
Conflict
Easier
Fence
Militia
Protect
Wildlife
Africa
Argue
Drawn
Hold
Reduce
Stake
Sums
Tide
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When I was on Taransay, I loved being part of a community, I loved that everyone knew what I was doing, where I was going. I loved that. I liked knowing that if I wasn't back at a certain time people would start worrying a little bit about me, I loved the whole community thing, sitting for hours and chatting to people.
Ben Fogle /
Chatting
Hours
Little Bit
Sitting
Time Community Me
Liked
Time People
Worrying
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