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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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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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We can now manipulate images to such an extrodinary extent that there's no lie you cannot tell.
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Can a growing human population still leave space for wildlife?
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Terrorism is an immediate problem that people are very concerned about, and I am as concerned about that as anyone else. But it isn't an either or situation.
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We keep putting on programmes about famine in Ethiopia that’s what’s happening. Too many people there. They can’t support themselves — and it’s not an inhuman thing to say. It’s the case. Until humanity manages to sort itself out and get a coordinated view about the planet it’s going to get worse and worse.
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The fundamental issue is the moral issue.
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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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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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You have to steer a course between not appalling people, but at the same time not misleading them.
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You'll find people where their conditions aren't changing in any way, its rather rare for them to be happy.
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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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I'm no longer sceptical. I no longer have any doubt at all. I think climate change is the major challenge facing the world.
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I've been to Nepal, but I'd like to go to Tibet. It must be a wonderful place to go. I don't think there's anything there, but it would be a nice place to visit.
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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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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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It never really occurred to me to believe in God.
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They always mean beautiful things like hummingbirds. I always reply by saying that I think of a little child in east Africa with a worm burrowing through his eyeball. The worm cannot live in any other way, except by burrowing through eyeballs. I find that hard to reconcile with the notion of a divine and benevolent creator.
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