Roz Savage
Roz Savage
Rosalind "Roz" Savage MBE FRGSis an English ocean rower, environmental advocate, writer and speaker...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionEnvironmentalist
Date of Birth23 December 1967
ocean might failing
Compared with the awesome might and eternal power of the ocean, no human being can fail to be reminded of their own insignificance.
strong powerful ocean
Despite what I had acchieved, I don't for a moment think I am any braver or better than anyone else. This is how I attempt to explain what gives me the stregnth to do what I do; when that thunderbolt of an idea first hit me and inspired me to row across oceans, it filled me with a sense of purpose so strong that it overcame my fears. Even when boredom, frustration, fatigue or despair threatened to overwhelm me, it was that powerful sense of purpose that kept me going.
years links want
Be mindful of the link between present action and desired future outcome. Ask yourself: if I repeat today’s actions 365 times, will I be where I want to be in a year?
accomplishment challenges bigger
The bigger the challenge, the bigger the sense of accomplishment when you get to the end of it.
sports designer-clothes car
I don't own designer clothes, or a sports car, or a huge house, but I am seeing the world, experiencing amazing things, and I have become an environmental campaigner.
long stones rolling
I am a rolling stone, never in one place for very long.
office normal used
I just used to have a really normal life, working in an office.
expectations people perception
A lot of people feel trapped by circumstance, by the expectations of others or the perception that they need a lot of money. They would like to have a different direction in their lives, but they're held back by fear or desires that are incompatible with that freedom.
ocean way sides
It's amazing how resourceful you can become when you're in the middle of the ocean and there's only one way to get to the other side.
ocean psychology important
Ocean rowing is very much what you make it. Rowing technique is pretty irrelevant on the ocean. It's the psychology that's important.
heaven way tiny
The Milky Way swooped diagonally across the heavens, reminding me of my utter insignificance, and at the same time my complete interconnection with everything. I was just a tiny speck of consciousness, and yet I was consciousness itself.
war views opposites
So let's raise the tone of the debate. Too often at the moment we look like schoolchildren squabbling over a toy - our most precious toy, the Earth. And the danger is that as we pull in opposite directions in our global tug of war, the Earth will end up broken - or at least unable to sustain human life. That is the worst case scenario - or maybe, from the Earth's point of view, the best.