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Motivational Speaker, "Extreme Explorer", Environmental Scientist, broadcaster, author. Brought non film-crew expeditions to the telly - inadvertently pioneering the Video Selfie. Instagram: @benedictallenexplorer X: @benedictallen www.benedictallen.com
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Check out how the anchors of CBS Evening News ended their broadcast tonight:

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GREAT EXPLORER QUOTES to brighten up your daily sandwich wrapper: 👍🏼🌏 "Dr Livingstone, I presume?" The greeting purportedly offered by reporter H.M.Stanley, who in Nov. 1871 at last located the famous 'lost' Scottish missionary, at Ujiji, in central Africa.

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Gobbling it all up...🌏👍🏼

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GREAT EXPLORER QUOTES to brighten up your daily sandwich wrapper:🌏👍🏼 "I may be some time..." Antarctic explorer Lawrence 'Titus' Oates, on the ill-fated expedition of Capt. Robert Scott to the South Pole, 1912.

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There is such a place as Heaven on Earth

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Presently out among the lady's smocks (and dandelions), in Eastern Bohemia... Hoping you too have a chance to get out exploring our precious planet, this Easter weekend.👍🏼🌏

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Even where a great mix of wild native trees is naturally regenerating profusely all around, they STILL insist on planting seas of plastic tubed and staked trees. The distrust in nature runs deep.

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I said “Don’t put in another ice screw! I think I saw a few cracks appearing when I put the last one in.”

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GREAT EXPLORER QUOTES to cheer up your sandwich wrapper🌏👍🏼: "Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World..." The navigator Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) as he set off to locate the Indies.

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GREAT EXPLORER QUOTES to brighten up your sandwich wrapper 🌏👍🏼: "Because it's there!" The purported reply of mountaineer George Mallory (1886- 1924), when asked why he was attempting to climb Everest.

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'Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.' Stephen King

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With the cowslips, in Dorset... Hope you too manage go exploring this weekend, whereever you are in the world.🌏✌️

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GREAT EXPLORER QUOTES to cheer up your sandwich wrapper!👍🏼🌏 "I have not told the half of what I saw..." The merchant Marco Polo (1271-1295), having returned along the Silk Road to East Asia.

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GREAT EXPLORER QUOTES to cheer up your sandwich wrapper: "Ship and stores have gone, so now we'll go home." (Ernest Shackleton, Antarctica 1915, as the expedition vessel was crushed by ice.)

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GREAT EXPLORER QUOTES to cheer up your daily sandwich wrapper! "You need have no fear of any failure." (Col. Percy Fawcett, in a last note written to his wife as he disappeared forever - as it turned out - into the Mato Grosso ('Thick Forest') of north eastern Brazil. 👍🏼🌏

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GREAT EXPLORER QUOTES- first in a NEW collectable series!👍🏼🌏 "Nowhere on earth have we progressed so slowly..." (The great Arctic explorer Nansen - though actually, at times explorers are found to be able to progress with surprising speed.)

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Meanwhile, on a beach far away... A leatherback turtle comes ashore on a moonlit night, just yesterday in Dominica, to lay her precious eggs. "Good luck!" my little daughter whispered as she slipped back into the sea.

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Ten seconds of perfect ease in the water... (Quick clip from yesterday, while watching bottle nose, spinner and pan-tropical spotted dolphins in the pristine seas around Dominica. 👍🏼🌏)

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Life goes on... At the magnificent botanical garden here in Dominica, came across this bus (once kindly denoted by Canada) - crushed by a falling baobab during Hurricane David in 2017. To this day, the tree proves an inspiration - as resilient as the islanders. 🌏🌳

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A one-off? Precious few places in the Caribbean have such a wealth of pristine sea and rainforest as Dominica, so I'm here investigating what's to be found - and what role model the island might be.👍🏼🌏 Will report back- but meanwhile here's a plucky land crab I came across, just yesterday.

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As ever, there for us... Another sun goes down in Prague. And will rise again! Wishing all those of good will well today, where-ever you are on our precious planet.

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HANDY TIPS for explorers - No. 8 in a collectable series of possibly brilliant ideas for your sandwich wrapper: Surrounded by a pack of wolves?🤔 Simply wait for the moon to come up and join in the chorus! 👍🏼😃 (NB Serve cocoa and a wide selection of biscuits as necessary)

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HANDY TIPS for explorers - No. 7 in a collectable series of possibly brilliant ideas for your sandwich wrapper: Best friend has been swallowed?🤔 Quickly offer a pleasurable alternative: a lovely plate of Custard Creams. (NB Chocolate Bourbons and Garibaldis also been known to work) 👍🏼😃

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HANDY TIPS for explorers - No. 6 in a collectable series of possibly brilliant ideas for your sandwich wrapper: Trapped up a tree? 🤔 Simply tell interminable stories of your past triumphs! Crocodiles are famously patient listeners and are bound to be impressed. 👍🏼😃

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HANDY TIPS for explorers - No. 5 in a collectable series of possibly brilliant ideas for your sandwich wrapper: Shark attack? 🤔 Grab a passing dorsal fin and TACTFULLY remind your assailant that, though he/she is an apex predator at sea, humans are a top predator on land.👍🏼😃

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