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Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English.

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David Attenborough
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: May 8
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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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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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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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All the modern devices we have enable us to investigate things and have enabled us to do better.
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The idea that the Lord had given us a present, that the world is a gift from God... well, the amount of stuff, back then, that the Lord was giving away was limited. We do not have dominion.
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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 think the most alarming animals I have encountered are really poisonous snakes.
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I have no doubt that the fundamental problem the planet faces is the enormous increase in the human population
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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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No one will protect what they don't care about, and no one will care about what they have never experienced.
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An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment...
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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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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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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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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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It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement the greatest source of visual beauty the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.
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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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We really need to kick the carbon habit and stop making our energy from burning things. Climate change is also really important. You can wreck one rainforest then move, drain one area of resources and move onto another, but climate change is global.
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