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All our environmental problems become easier to solve with fewer people and harder - and ultimately impossible to solve - with ever more people.
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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There are perfectly good independent small nations.
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It is curiosity, quite right-a divine curiosity. A characteristic of the gods is curiosity.
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I suppose happiness is something one enjoys, but I suspect that happiness is not a state but rather a transition.
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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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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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