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Dealing with global warming doesn't mean we have all got to suddenly stop breathing. Dealing with global warming means that we have to stop waste, and if you travel for no reason whatsoever, that is a waste.

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David Attenborough
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: May 8
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I don't like rats, but there's not much else I don't like. The problem with rats is they have no fear of human beings, they're loaded with foul diseases, they would run the place given half the chance, and I've had them leap out of a lavatory while I've been sitting on it.
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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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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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I'm against this huge globalisation on the basis of economic advantage.
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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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