Jeremy Wade quotes

I try to sneak a bit of education into the entertainment. We don't preach to people, but we do try to give them very strong messages. (Jeremy Wade)
The human mind doesn't like a vacuum. We will populate that vacuum with the contents of our own head, and often that's scary stuff. View quote
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Normally if you are in a boat, you can follow a fish around, but if you are on the shore, you have to pull it. View quote
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The great thing about freshwater fish is most of them are incredibly ugly, a lot of them are, so no one can fail to look good next to some of these things. View quote
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Fish don't have hands; to investigate, they open their mouth, and sometimes it's someone's foot. View quote
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With rivers, you don't have a lot of room to work, and with the bigger fish that I'm catching, you might have just a few feet to work with. View quote
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So even if there was a mutation in Loch Ness I still don't think you're going to see a 30ft eel. View quote
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But the whole reason I fish is that you never know for sure what is down there. Unless you drained Loch Ness you will never be certain what's living in it. View quote
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The thing about the oceans is there is the benefit of water clarity. You can see what's going on there, but a lot of fresh water is murky. You just can't see what's there and I think, for that reason, rivers haven't featured so much on wildlife TV. View quote
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The way that we live with potentially dangerous animals is not to kill them, but to understand them and to coexist with them. View quote
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A lot of fish that live in the sea, they are your normal, nice, pretty, silvery, shiny fish. (Jeremy Wade)
People assume I'm fearless. A lot of the things I deal with are pretty scary. Fear makes you pay attention - it's about absolute concentration. View quote
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You don't necessarily have to go to some exotic location halfway around the world. You can find that other world very close to where you live. View quote
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I've been stabbed by a catfish. They've got quite sharp spines on their pectoral fins. View quote
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A river without monsters is a scarier prospect because it means the water is unhealthy. View quote
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Fishing is quite a good metaphor for life. You do your prep, you do your thinking, you put your bait out, and you wait, confident that you've done your groundwork. But a lot of life is luck. View quote
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It's always the crocodile you don't see you have to worry about. View quote
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A fish with a big mouth, like a catfish, they've been known to bite people's legs. Normally not because they're hungry, but because they're protecting a nest or something like that. View quote
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Everything starts with fishermen's tales. Everywhere you go the fishermen talk. View quote
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Even without the creatures living in it, water is dangerous. We have an ambivalent relationship with water. It's the source of life, it's the source of food, but it's also a source of death, if you're not careful. View quote
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There's less mystery in the sea than there is in fresh water. If you look at television there's lots of documentaries on whales, on coral reefs, the deep oceanic trenches. There's loads of stuff. But as soon as you look for anything about fresh water, the information is very sketchy. (Jeremy Wade)
I like taking people to a world they wouldn't normally go to and to creatures that a lot of people didn't know existed. View quote
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I go to the Congo or the Amazon, but every river has its mystery of what is down there. View quote
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Florida's nice and warm, there's all sorts of stuff living there that shouldn't be there! View quote
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Fishing as a spectator sport in real time is the most boring thing you can imagine. View quote
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