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Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English.
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 the modern devices we have enable us to investigate things and have enabled us to do better.
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I remember when we were in the World Cup in Australia and I had to win the singles against Tony Payne, best of seven legs, to win it. I was 2-0 down but ended up beating him I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours of arrival.
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I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours of arrival.
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Using his burgeoning intelligence, this most successful of all mammals has exploited the environment to produce food for an ever increasing population. Instead of controlling the environment for the benefit of the population, perhaps it's time we controlled the population to allow the survival of the environment.
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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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It is curiosity, quite right-a divine curiosity. A characteristic of the gods is curiosity.
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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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Apart from anything else, I am designed by evolution, like we all are: if we see a little thing like that, big eyes, tiny nose, we go 'aaah'. That's what evolution does. We are programmed to do that. So to find babies the most amazing, isn't surprising, I don't think.
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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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You have to steer a course between not appalling people, but at the same time not misleading them.
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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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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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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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There are perfectly good independent small nations.
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The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?
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Since when has Finland been a rotten place to live in?
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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 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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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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Its about cherishing the woodland at the bottom of your garden or the stream that runs through it. It affects every aspect of life.
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