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Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel.

David Attenborough

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David Attenborough
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: May 8
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Sir David Attenborough
David Frederick Attenborough
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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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Birds are the most accomplished aeronauts the world has ever seen. They fly high and low, at great speed, and very slowly. And always with extraordinary precision and control.
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The notion of ever more old people needing ever more young people, who will in turn grow old and need even more young people, and so on ad infinitum, is an obvious ecological Ponzi scheme.
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All life is related. And it enables us to construct with confidence the complex tree that represents the history of life
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I've never actually met one in the wild, but I have seen a king cobra. They go towards people, they rear up six feet tall and they're very aggressive and they are very fast. And one bite means certain death. So if I encountered a king cobra in the wild I would be very alarmed.
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Since when has Finland been a rotten place to live in?
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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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The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between it and millions of other species of both animals and plants.
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I find it far more awesome, wonderful, that creation our appearance in the world should be the culmination, or at least one of the latest products of 3,000 Million years of organic evolution, than a kind of country trick, taking a rib out of a man's side in a trance.
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There are perfectly good independent small nations.
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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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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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I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.
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Now, I find that very difficult to reconcile with notions about a merciful God.
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It never really occurred to me to believe in God.
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Humanity is facing a very big, slow, long, drawn-out threat, and that is to do with the way the weather is changing and the size of the population.
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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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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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The fundamental issue is the moral issue.
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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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