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I'm swanning round the world looking at the most fabulously interesting things. Such good fortune.

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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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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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 would be absolutely astounded if population growth and industrialisation and all the stuff we are pumping into the atmosphere hadn't changed the climatic balance. Of course it has. There is no valid argument for denial.
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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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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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Nothing in the natural world makes sense - except when seen in the light of evolution
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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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What humans do over the next 50 years will determine the fate of all life on the planet.
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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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I'm against this huge globalisation on the basis of economic advantage.
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Anyone who thinks that you can have infinite growth on a planet with finite resources is either a madman or an economist.
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Since when has Finland been a rotten place to live in?
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I've been bitten by a python. Not a very big one. I was being silly, saying: 'Oh, it's not poisonous' Then, wallop! But you have fear around animals.
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If I can make programmes when I'm 95, that would be fine. But I would think I'll have had enough by then.
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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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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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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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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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I am an ardent recycler. I would like to think that it works. I don't know whether it does or not.
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What I am interested in with birds, just as I am with spiders or monkeys, is what they do and why they do it.
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