Many of the animals that are traditionally seen as vermin are my life's fascination. — Steve Backshall Copy Share Image
The scariest animal is without doubt human beings. We are the only species that decimates the very environment that we require to… — Steve Backshall Copy Share Image
It's going to sound terribly glib and cliched but the more I learn about animals, the more convinced I am that almost… — Steve Backshall Copy Share Image
I love what I do for a living and even if I wasn't getting paid for it I would still pursue an… — Steve Backshall Copy Share Image
Living my life in conservation, I see far greater tragedies and crimes against wildlife than the loss of a few thousand badgers.… — Steve Backshall Copy Share Image
I was lucky enough to be surrounded by all sorts of animals from a very young age. My sister Jo was much… — Steve Backshall Copy Share Image
I appreciate that I'm in the privileged situation of getting to spend my entire life outdoors with wildlife, and I know first… — Steve Backshall Copy Share Image
If I could be any animal I'd probably be a wandering albatross, the bird with the largest wing span. Being able to… — Steve Backshall Copy Share Image
And there are very few wild animals that can't run down a human being; the big predators would run down Usain Bolt… — Steve Backshall Copy Share Image
I think most schoolboys are most excited by scorpions, spiders and snakes, and I never really grew up. I've always had the… — Steve Backshall Copy Share Image
If you ask most wildlife film-makers or biologists what the greatest wildlife spectacle on Earth is, they'll say wildebeest migration or the… — Steve Backshall Copy Share Image
I surround myself with books, kind of hoping the vast knowledge will just seep into my mind through osmosis. — Steve Backshall Copy Share
Hedgehogs need somewhere to hibernate through the winter, but also a place that they can lie out at during the day. So have a… — Steve Backshall Copy Share
I come from an area of southern England that is utterly homogenous. All the history near me is about royalty and fealty, things which… — Steve Backshall Copy Share
I started climbing in my late teens, but I wasn't passionate about it back then. My first experience was being dragged up peaks by… — Steve Backshall Copy Share
I'm not a great technical climber, but over the years it has given me the opportunity to see wonderful corners of Britain that I… — Steve Backshall Copy Share
Even my fiction novels are all about outdoor adventure, and have plenty of information to encourage the reader to get interested in adventure and… — Steve Backshall Copy Share
In the Himalayas, I spent some of the most exhilarating moments of my life, shooting white water rapids in a kayak. — Steve Backshall Copy Share
I had a good deal of power work - lots of plyometrics, callisthenics, tossing big tyres. It's all geared towards having that explosiveness available… — Steve Backshall Copy Share
Certainly jellyfish are seasonal, and owing to a complex range of environmental features there are years when they will appear in far greater numbers. — Steve Backshall Copy Share
Baffin Island was extraordinary; one of the most terrifying things I've done. — Steve Backshall Copy Share
It's going to sound terribly glib and cliched but the more I learn about animals, the more convinced I am that almost all the… — Steve Backshall Copy Share
There's nothing more paralysing or more likely to make people fall into a malaise of believing they are powerless than just hearing that everything's… — Steve Backshall Copy Share
Lose the sharks, the mighty, mysterious lords of the deep, and our planet's oceans would be infinitely poorer places. — Steve Backshall Copy Share
I read most often when I am on the road, travelling on my journeys. In cars, on planes, trains... I'm very lucky that I… — Steve Backshall Copy Share
I know plenty of people who live in the country who have never seen a badger. They are definitely there, but these nocturnal delights… — Steve Backshall Copy Share
