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

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David Attenborough
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: May 8
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I'd like to see the giant squid. Nobody has ever seen one. I could tell you people who have spent thousands and thousands of pounds trying to see giant squid. I mean, we know they exist because we have seen dead ones. But I have never seen a living one. Nor has anybody else.
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I'm not over-fond of animals. I am merely astounded by them.
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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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All our environmental problems become easier to solve with fewer people and harder - and ultimately impossible to solve - with ever more people.
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People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly clearly. Periodic famines are due to too many people living on land that can't sustain them.
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Since when has Finland been a rotten place to live in?
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Fundamentally not to waste energy. If we were all to reduce our demands for energy, it would make an enormous amount of difference.
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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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The World is full of wonders, but they become more Wonderful, not less Wonderful when Science looks at them.
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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 remember when we were in the World Cup in Australia and I had to win the singles against Tony Payne, best of seven legs, to win it. I was 2-0 down but ended up beating him 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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You have to steer a course between not appalling people, but at the same time not misleading them.
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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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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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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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Getting to places like Bangkok or Singapore was a hell of a sweat. But when you got there it was the back of beyond. It was just a series of small tin sheds.
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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 would love to go and see the Himalayan Mountain Kingdoms. There are very few left now. I would loved to have gone to Tibet and Nepal. And there are still parts of central Asia that are utterly 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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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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