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Lewis Pugh

(1969) Explorer

19 quotes in 140 categories

Lewis Pugh is an explorer.

Quick Facts About Lewis Pugh

Born: December 5, 1969
Profession: Explorer

About Lewis Pugh

[Wikidata] British-South African environmental campaigner, maritime lawyer and endurance swimmer... | [Wikipedia] Lewis William Gordon Pugh, OIG, is a British-South African endurance swimmer and ocean advocate. Dubbed the "Sir Edmund Hillary of swimming", he is the first person to complete a long-distance swim in every ocean of the world, and he frequently swims in vulnerable ecosystems to draw attention to the

Quotes by Lewis Pugh

Mount Everest is a very spiritual place, it's a beautiful mountain.

Beautiful

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If you've got a problem and you multiply it by 50-million people, it becomes unsolvable, but if you've got a problem and…

Divides

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I've got two dogs - one's a Jack Russell and she's one year old now, and I've got another dog called Kanga,…

Beach

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We have to appreciate that we are part of nature, we must work with nature; the environment is our lifeline.

Appreciate

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I do have spare time and I love to read, and I love just to go to a national park and just…

Love to read

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Ordinary won't change the world.

Change

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Very few things which are really worth achieving come easily. Sometimes they do, but most of the time you really have to…

Achieve

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I love swimming, swimming's my passion and I hope I swim until the last day of my life, so I really, really…

Enjoy

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What I'm asking people to do is to look at their lives, wherever they may be. I mean, you may be a…

Asking

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I think every child in every country, not just South Africa, every year should go to a national park, and it should…

Children

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Sometimes we set boundaries for ourselves in life, or even worse, we allow others to do so. In many cases, these boundaries…

Boundaries

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I was very, very lucky because I started swimming when most of the landmarks in the world had not been swum.

Landmarks

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I got bored and then joined the British SAS. It was five very exciting years of my life, and then I'd always…

Around the world

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I had a dream , okay, go do a swim off Antarctica, and I'd train in Gauteng and just dive into the…

Antarctica

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I've seen some glaciers in the world which have been, which are just turquoise blue blue glaciers up in the Arctic. It's…

Action

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I'm one of the lucky people that, my job is my passion, is my hobby. I hope this doesn't sound arrogant: I…

Arrogant

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I was asked to give a speech on the Everest swim, and during the Everest swim, I changed. I changed as a…

Changed

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The businessmen of the world who are not taking environmental matters seriously are just wasting money, aside from damaging the environment it's…

Businessman

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You shouldn't be able to do a swim at the North Pole, it should be frozen over.

Able

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