I surround myself with books, kind of hoping the vast knowledge will just seep into my mind through osmosis. — Steve Backshall Book Copy Share Image
Hedgehogs need somewhere to hibernate through the winter, but also a place that they can lie out at during the day. So… — Steve Backshall Day Copy Share Image
I come from an area of southern England that is utterly homogenous. All the history near me is about royalty and fealty,… — Steve Backshall Cold Copy Share Image
I started climbing in my late teens, but I wasn't passionate about it back then. My first experience was being dragged up… — Steve Backshall Cold Copy Share Image
I'm not a great technical climber, but over the years it has given me the opportunity to see wonderful corners of Britain… — Steve Backshall Experience Copy Share Image
Even my fiction novels are all about outdoor adventure, and have plenty of information to encourage the reader to get interested in… — Steve Backshall Adventure Copy Share Image
In the Himalayas, I spent some of the most exhilarating moments of my life, shooting white water rapids in a kayak. — Steve Backshall Life Copy Share Image
I had a good deal of power work - lots of plyometrics, callisthenics, tossing big tyres. It's all geared towards having that… — Steve Backshall Big Copy Share Image
Certainly jellyfish are seasonal, and owing to a complex range of environmental features there are years when they will appear in far… — Steve Backshall Environmental Copy Share Image
Baffin Island was extraordinary; one of the most terrifying things I've done. — Steve Backshall Done 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 Animals Copy Share Image
There's nothing more paralysing or more likely to make people fall into a malaise of believing they are powerless than just hearing… — Steve Backshall Better Copy Share Image
Lose the sharks, the mighty, mysterious lords of the deep, and our planet's oceans would be infinitely poorer places. — Steve Backshall Deep Copy Share Image
I read most often when I am on the road, travelling on my journeys. In cars, on planes, trains... I'm very lucky… — Steve Backshall Books Copy Share Image
I know plenty of people who live in the country who have never seen a badger. They are definitely there, but these… — Steve Backshall Country Copy Share Image
My favourite climb is St Kilda, west of Benbecula in Scotland's Outer Hebrides. It's incredibly remote, with the highest sea cliffs in… — Steve Backshall Climb Copy Share Image
Climbing is never going to be 100% safe, but the climbing I do with work is done under much stricter guidelines than… — Steve Backshall Done 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 Animals Copy Share Image
I grew up on a small holding, it was a great way to grow up and incredibly idyllic. We had a donkey… — Steve Backshall Dog Copy Share Image
I guess I'm a dog person, so the canids have a special power for me. And yet wolves are everything our own… — Steve Backshall Dog 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 Animals Copy Share Image
I made my first conservation series for National Geographic in 2000. Ever since I've been finding ways of making my own life… — Steve Backshall Environment Copy Share Image
I am very driven by things that scare and frighten me, and things that might be tough for me. — Steve Backshall Am Copy Share Image
I honestly expected me learning Welsh to be met with a certain amount of cynicism, even outright hostility from some. But that… — Steve Backshall Cynicism Copy Share Image
More than anything there is the sense of scale: you can fly for hours and hours of Alaska and you look down… — Steve Backshall Fly Copy Share Image
