Lewis Pugh: Quotes about the sea

Lewis Pugh is Environmental campaigner, maritime lawyer and endurance swimmer. Explore interesting quotes on sea.
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“I wanted to push every boundary. I wanted to swim further than anyone else. I wanted to cross seas and round capes that no one had dreamed of swimming before. And I wanted to swim in waters that were so cold no one thought it was possible to survive in them.”

Lewis Pugh

p 168
Achieving The Impossible (2010)
Context: I resolved to follow my dream. I wanted to push every boundary. I wanted to swim further than anyone else. I wanted to cross seas and round capes that no one had dreamed of swimming before. And I wanted to swim in waters that were so cold no one thought it was possible to survive in them. And though it promised to make me poor and would take away the security provided by a career in law, that didn’t worry me.

Dreams , Water , Sea

“I always feel nostalgic when I disembark (off a ship). It's not that I don't like land. I just love being at sea.”

Lewis Pugh

6 November 2014, Twitter
Speaking & Features

Love , Feeling , Sea

“They have […] a split personality. One moment they’re your best mate, and next they are trying to drag you down to the bottom of the sea to drown you. […] It’s just astonishing.”

Lewis Pugh

p 65, describing leopard seals off Antarctica
21 Yaks And A Speedo (2013)

Personality , Sea

“There’s nothing more chilling than swimming across open sea, where recently there used to be a solid glacier.”

Lewis Pugh

Address to the House of Lords (19 November 2010)
Speaking & Features

Sea

“No matter how tough my day has been, when I dive into the sea, the world seems perfect.”

Lewis Pugh

Website

World , Perfection , Sea

“Nothing excited me more than opening up the atlas and seeing places and seas, imagining what they looked like and what kind of life the people had.”

Lewis Pugh

p 8
Achieving The Impossible (2010)

Life , People , Imagination , Sea

“I’ve swum through some very cold and rough seas. I think that’s made me more determined than the average person.”

Lewis Pugh

Website

Thinking , Personality , Sea

“I have been haunted by that swim through the whale graveyard and haven’t been able to get the image of the bones out of my head. Man hunted whales almost to the point of extinction, not seeming to care that we would lose one of the wonders of the sea world forever. It is the coldness of the water in Antarctica that preserves the bones and makes it look like they were left there yesterday but I like to think they are there as a reminder of man’s potential for folly.”

Lewis Pugh

p 315-6, describing his swim at Deception Island, Antarctica (2005)
Achieving The Impossible (2010)

World , Thinking , Water , Sea