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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.
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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The process of making natural history films is to try to prevent the animal knowing you are there, so you get glimpses of a non-human world, and that is a transporting thing.
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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 believe the Abominable Snowman may be real. I think there may be something in that.
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You'll discover in countries where women have control over their own bodies, where they have education, where they have birth control, where they have facilities and where they are literate, when those things happen, the birth rate falls.
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People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.
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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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It's like saying that two and two equals four, but if you wish to believe it, it could also be five ... Evolution is not a theory it is a fact, every bit as much as the historical fact that William the Conqueror landed in 1066.
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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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I find it far more awesome, wonderful, that creation our appearance in the world should be the culmination, or at least one of the latest products of 3,000 Million years of organic evolution, than a kind of country trick, taking a rib out of a man's side in a trance.
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Anyone who thinks that you can have infinite growth on a planet with finite resources is either a madman or an economist.
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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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Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel.
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How could I look my grandchildren in the eye and say I knew what was happening to the world and did nothing.
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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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Since when has Finland been a rotten place to live in?
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