Ben Fogle Quotes

When I was little, we lived on 8 acres and my mom had a horse. But when I was 7, my mom kicked my dad out, and then in order to feed us five kids, she got critters cheap or for free and raised them for food. We milked a cow, raised chickens, pigs and beef cattle. We heated our one-story house with wood and stayed cold all winter.

I do have a side of me that would just love to be stuck in the woods and have to stick it out and be really resourceful.

Robinson Crusoe, the self-sufficient man, could not have lived in New York city.

Living in a small town, one of the keys to survival was your imagination.

We were sharecroppers - we were a little bit of everything. We farmed and tried to make something.

Everyone has to kind of fend for themselves.

I'm not tough, and I never have been. I suppose over the years I've built up kind of a veneer to protect myself because I have functioned on my own for a long, long time, and I have never had a lot of flunkies preceding me to clear the way.

Living off the grid and being kind of an outlaw brings a dangerous reality.

My mother raised three kids on her own, so I was taught that to be a working mom was a good thing.

You can't totally rebel, otherwise you have to go live on your own, on a desert island. It's as simple as that.

When my mother was raising me, she moved us upstate to the Woodstock area. Our closest neighbor was a mile away. She planted all her own vegetables.

I live right in the middle of nowhere and I thoroughly enjoy it.

I'm not a figurehead for anything. I was a single mom with two kids. What else was I going to do? It was either be in a band or be a waitress.

For a long time all I wanted for Christmas were books about outdoor survival. I was convinced that the woods were calling me. I camped a lot, I took classes. At 18, I told myself if I don't live in the woods by myself by the time I'm 25, I have failed.

I know people who have, until recently, lived with dirt floors. There are people who live way back off the grid, without electricity. Not a whole lot, but quite a few. That's a choice for a lot of them. There might be a religious element in their isolation, at least with some of them.

We lived on isolated farms and ranches, far from anybody, and when I was young I knew very few other kids, so I lived to a great extent in my imagination.

We had better look out for ourselves and make the rest of the world look out for themselves. If we tried to feed the world, we will starve and perhaps destroy America…

Getting through the day becomes more important than living a long life when you have no one else to live for.

I could start a fire from scratch.

I always wanted to live alone for a month in a lakeside cabin. In my fantasy, I enter a state of perfect peace and grow my own kale and stuff, but in real life, I think I might be very bored after four days.

I've got a different life. I live up on a farm; I don't have anything to do with social media.

It would be nice if we redefined what we meant by 'war story.' If you're making $15,000 a year living in a certain area of Portland, trying to make it with three kids and no husband, that's a kind of war.

I basically grew up in the backwoods.

One can't live in solitude. To survive as a single family unit is not possible.

My father passed away when I was seven, mom single-handedly brought up my brother Rahul and me. She was a civil surgeon posted in rural areas. We went through some tough times but she gave us a beautiful life.