Quotes by Lewis Gordon Pugh - Page 1

I wish politicians would put the environment at the centre of every agenda.
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Centre
Environment
Wish
Agenda
Politicians
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The human body is not designed for swimming in minus 1.7 degree centigrade water.
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Human Body
Minus
Swimming
Degree
Designed
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Normally I don't race other people; I challenge the environment and my own limitations.
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Limitations
Normally
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Climate change is the Everest of all problems, the thorniest challenge facing humankind.
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Change
Climate
Climate Change
Everest
Humankind
Challenge
Change Climate Challenge
Facing
Problems
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Swimming has been a very effective medium for telling a story about the state of our planet.
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Our Planet
Swimming
Effective
Medium
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The problem with climate change is that it's quite complicated for the ordinary person to understand.
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Climate Change
Complicated
Ordinary
Ordinary Person
The Problem With
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Not to be too grandiose about it, but in a way I see myself like Sir Edmund Hillary. The water was my Everest.
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Everest
Grandiose
Water
Hillary
Sir
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Britain has bred many great explorers, but they seem to get so little coverage compared to soccer and rugby players.
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Britain
Coverage
Explorers
Rugby
Soccer
Bred
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On 15 July 2007, I swam across an open patch of sea at the North Pole to highlight the melting of the Arctic sea ice.
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Arctic
Ice
July
Melting
North Pole
Sea
Across
Highlight
North
Patch
Pole
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The swim at Deception Island was by far the hardest swim I've ever done. Antarctica is a very unforgiving environment. If you don't train properly, you'll die.
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Antarctica
Swim
Unforgiving
Island
Properly
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We need to save the Arctic not because of the polar bears, and not because it is the most beautiful place in the world, but because our very survival depends upon it.
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Arctic
Bears
Depends
Survival
Most
Most Beautiful Beautiful World
Need
Very
Beautiful Place
Beautiful Most Beautiful World
Beautiful Beautiful Place World
Place
Most Beautiful
Polar
Save
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I've been on swims where people have freaked out about sharks. You have to think about something else, otherwise it will absolutely paralyze you. I do math problems, anything.
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Math
Sharks
Problems People Will
Freaked
Paralyze
Something Else
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When I'm preparing for a swim, I imagine absolutely everything about it: the color of the water, how cold it is, the taste of salt in my mouth. I visualize each and every stroke.
Lewis Gordon Pugh /
Cold
Preparing
Salt
Swim
Taste
Absolutely Everything
Mouth
Stroke
Visualize
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I learned two basic lessons on Everest. First, just because something has worked in the past does not mean it will work today. Second, different challenges require different mindsets.
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Everest
Lessons
Basic
In The Past
Learned
Mindsets
Require
Second
Worked
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On my second swim at Deception Island, the water was very clear and I was looking at hundreds of whale bones beneath me. It was a graveyard from the whaling some time in the 1920s-30s.
Lewis Gordon Pugh /
Bones
Clear
Deception
Graveyard
Swim
Water
Time Water Me
Beneath
Time Me Looking
Island
Hundreds
Second
Whale
Whaling
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I think that I was slightly naive. I thought that if I showed people the beauty of the Arctic and the beauty of the polar bears that they would care so much that they would stand up and try to make a change.
Lewis Gordon Pugh /
Beauty
Arctic
Bears
Care
Naive
Stand
Try
Polar
Slightly
Stand Up
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The days of exploration of Shackleton and Scott are long gone. Everything has been climbed, crossed, done. Now what we're exploring are the full boundaries of human endeavour. It's not physical - it's all in the head.
Lewis Gordon Pugh /
Boundaries
Endeavour
Exploration
Exploring
Climbed
Crossed
Long Gone
Scott
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Of all the creatures in the world that really frighten me - the hyena in Africa, the great white shark - leopard seals are near the top of the list. They're killers. If my team spots one, they'll pull me out of the water.
Lewis Gordon Pugh /
Creatures
Seals
Spots
Team
Water
White
Great World Me
Africa
Frighten
Hyena
Leopard
List
Near
Pull
Shark
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In the cold, all the blood rushes to your core to protect your heart, lungs, kidneys, liver, and brain. When you leave the water, the blood rushes back to your arms and legs, absorbs that freezing cold, and brings it back to the heart.
Lewis Gordon Pugh /
Arms
Blood
Cold
Legs
Liver
Lungs
Absorb
Brings
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When I was born, the world's population was 3.5 billion. There are now 6.8 billion people on the planet. By 2050, that's expected to rise to 9.4 billion. What's more, the Earth's resources aren't growing; they're decreasing - and rapidly.
Lewis Gordon Pugh /
Expected
Population
Resources
Rise
World People Earth
Billion
Decreasing
Rapidly
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I just never, ever want to give up. Most battles are won in the 11th hour, and most people give up. If you give up once, it's quite hard. If you give up a second time, it's a little bit easier. Give up a third time, it's starting to become a habit.
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Habit
Starting
Battles
Hour
Third
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