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An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment...
David Attenborough
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David Attenborough
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: May 8
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David Frederick Attenborough
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All we can hope for is that the thing is going to slowly and imperceptibly shift. All I can say is that 50 years ago there were no such thing as environmental policies.
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Until humanity manages to sort itself out and get a co-ordinated view about the planet, it's going to get worse and worse.
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Very few species have survived unchanged. There's one called lingula, which is a little shellfish, a little brachiopod about the size of my fingernail, that has survived for 500 million years, but it's survived by being unobtrusive and doing nothing, and you can't accuse human beings of that.
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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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If I can make programmes when I'm 95, that would be fine. But I would think I'll have had enough by then.
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What I am interested in with birds, just as I am with spiders or monkeys, is what they do and why they do it.
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If my grandchildren were to look at me and say, 'You were aware species were disappearing and you did nothing, you said nothing', that I think is culpable. I don't know how much more they expect me to be doing, I'd better ask them.
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There are perfectly good independent small nations.
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Can a growing human population still leave space for wildlife?
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You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural history programmes should be for.
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Now, I find that very difficult to reconcile with notions about a merciful God.
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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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I would be absolutely astounded if population growth and industrialisation and all the stuff we are pumping into the atmosphere hadn't changed the climatic balance. Of course it has. There is no valid argument for denial.
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Getting to places like Bangkok or Singapore was a hell of a sweat. But when you got there it was the back of beyond. It was just a series of small tin sheds.
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The reverse side of the coin in having this extraordinary ability to go anywhere, is that no one anywhere is remote any more.
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Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on a license which is not the same as a government grant.
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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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I'm not over-fond of animals. I am merely astounded by them.
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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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