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I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.
David Attenborough
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David Attenborough
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: May 8
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Sir David Attenborough
David Frederick Attenborough
Sir David Frederick Attenborough
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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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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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The more you go on, the less you need people standing between you and the animal and the camera waving their arms about.
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I would love to see a giant squid. Very few people have seen them. And only about half a dozen people have seen one alive.
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I'm against this huge globalisation on the basis of economic advantage.
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I believe the Abominable Snowman may be real. I think there may be something in that.
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There are perfectly good independent small nations.
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In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn't use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes.
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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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To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can see. The Archbishop of Canterbury doesn't believe that.
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Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren't aware that you are not treating them with respect, the viewers are.
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I've never actually met one in the wild, but I have seen a king cobra. They go towards people, they rear up six feet tall and they're very aggressive and they are very fast. And one bite means certain death. So if I encountered a king cobra in the wild I would be very alarmed.
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You can cry about death and very properly so, your own as well as anybody else's. But it's inevitable, so you'd better grapple with it and cope and be aware that not only is it inevitable, but it has always been inevitable, if you see what I mean.
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I often get letters, quite frequently, from people who say how they like the programmes a lot, but I never give credit to the almighty power that created nature.
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