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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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I'm not over-fond of animals. I am merely astounded by them.
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I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.
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The fact is that no species has ever had such wholesale control over everything on earth, living or dead, as we now have. That lays upon us, whether we like it or not, an awesome responsibility. In our hands now lies not only our own future, but that of all other living creatures with whom we share the earth.
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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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As far as I'm concerned, if there is a supreme being then He chose organic evolution as a way of bringing into existence the natural world... which doesn't seem to me to be necessarily blasphemous at all.
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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 is curiosity, quite right-a divine curiosity. A characteristic of the gods is curiosity.
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The fundamental issue is the moral issue.
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In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn't use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes.
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You'll discover in countries where women have control over their own bodies, where they have education, where they have birth control, where they have facilities and where they are literate, when those things happen, the birth rate falls.
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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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What humans do over the next 50 years will determine the fate of all life on the planet.
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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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Its about cherishing the woodland at the bottom of your garden or the stream that runs through it. It affects every aspect of life.
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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 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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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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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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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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