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David Attenborough Inspirational Quotes (94)

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The World is full of wonders, but they become more Wonderful, not less Wonderful when Science looks at them.
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I believe the Abominable Snowman may be real. I think there may be something in that.
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Terrorism is an immediate problem that people are very concerned about, and I am as concerned about that as anyone else. But it isn't an either or situation.
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I'd like to see the giant squid. Nobody has ever seen one. I could tell you people who have spent thousands and thousands of pounds trying to see giant squid. I mean, we know they exist because we have seen dead ones. But I have never seen a living one. Nor has anybody else.
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I think the most alarming animals I have encountered are really poisonous snakes.
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What humans do over the next 50 years will determine the fate of all life on the planet.
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I am an ardent recycler. I would like to think that it works. I don't know whether it does or not.
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As far as I'm concerned, if there is a supreme being then He chose organic evolution as a way of bringing into existence the natural world... which doesn't seem to me to be necessarily blasphemous at all.
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Fundamentally not to waste energy. If we were all to reduce our demands for energy, it would make an enormous amount of difference.
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The most extraordinary thing about trying to piece together the missing links in the evolutionary story is that when you do find a missing link and put it in the story, you suddenly need all these other missing links to connect to the new discovery. The gaps and questions actually increase - it's extraordinary.
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The climate suits me, and London has the greatest serious music that you can hear any day of the week in the world - you think it's going to be Vienna or Paris or somewhere, but if you go to Vienna or Paris and say, 'Let's hear some good music', there isn't any.
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London has fine museums, the British Library is one of the greatest library institutions in the world... It's got everything you want, really.
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There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of staying alive.
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We keep putting on programmes about famine in Ethiopia that’s what’s happening. Too many people there. They can’t support themselves — and it’s not an inhuman thing to say. It’s the case. Until humanity manages to sort itself out and get a coordinated view about the planet it’s going to get worse and worse.
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I'm not over-fond of animals. I am merely astounded by them.
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The notion of ever more old people needing ever more young people, who will in turn grow old and need even more young people, and so on ad infinitum, is an obvious ecological Ponzi scheme.
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We can now manipulate images to such an extrodinary extent that there's no lie you cannot tell.
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We really need to kick the carbon habit and stop making our energy from burning things. Climate change is also really important. You can wreck one rainforest then move, drain one area of resources and move onto another, but climate change is global.
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I can mention many moments that were unforgettable and revelatory. But the most single revelatory three minutes was the first time I put on scuba gear and dived on a coral reef. It's just the unbelievable fact that you can move in three dimensions.
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You'll find people where their conditions aren't changing in any way, its rather rare for them to be happy.
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I've been bitten by a python. Not a very big one. I was being silly, saying: 'Oh, it's not poisonous' Then, wallop! But you have fear around animals.
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Since when has Finland been a rotten place to live in?
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There are perfectly good independent small nations.
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No one will protect what they don't care about, and no one will care about what they have never experienced.
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