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There is something very appealing about moving to a faraway place.
- Ben Fogle
#About
#Moving
#Place
#Something
#Very
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
#City
#Heart
#I Am
#Person
#School
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
#Children
#Discipline
#Imagination
#World
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
#Everything
#Face
#Fishing
#Us
#White
I take echinacea to ward off colds and I go through phases of taking vitamins, but I'd rather eat a lot of fruit and veg than take pills.
- Ben Fogle
#Fruit
#Go
#Take
#Through
#Vitamins
Lego for many parents is the antithesis of the high tech world. We are desperate to wean our little ones away from the tablets and into the bricks.
- Ben Fogle
#Bricks
#Desperate
#Lego
#Parents
#World
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
#Back
#Bottle
#Lucky
#Special
#Water
I met a Swedish single mum called Annalise who is living in the wilderness. Her dilemma is finding enough wood to make a fire to keep warm.
- Ben Fogle
#Dilemma
#Enough
#Fire
#Living
#Wood
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
#Great
#I Am
#Me
#Wild
It's not a surprise that the mental health epidemic is affecting so many people because we can't escape this bubble from being on our phones and tablets.
- Ben Fogle
#Bubble
#Escape
#Health
#People
#Surprise
I'm a bit dyslexic so I found learning to read hard. I muddled up the letters but learnt to power through.
- Ben Fogle
#Hard
#Learning
#Power
#Through
#Up
I failed my exams and my driving test. I failed to get into the Foreign Office and drama school. The big F was dominant in my early years.
- Ben Fogle
#Big
#Drama
#Early
#School
#Test
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.
- Ben Fogle
#Geography
#Great
#Learning
#Lesson
I love the ocean. Anywhere near the ocean will do. Preferably the Atlantic Ocean.
- Ben Fogle
#Atlantic Ocean
#Love
#Near
#Ocean
#Will
Often, a seemingly clear clean beach has a huge amount of hidden litter.
- Ben Fogle
#Beach
#Clean
#Clear
#Hidden
#Litter
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
#Decision
#Fish
#Three
#Week
#Wife
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
#Everything
#Face
#Go
#Important
#Jungle
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
#Back
#Doing
#Look
#Thinking
#Wedding
When I was a child, Lego came in brick form, you'd buy boxes of random bricks. You used your imagination and your mind in your build.
- Ben Fogle
#Bricks
#Imagination
#Lego
#Mind
#Random
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