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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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Sir David Attenborough
David Frederick Attenborough
Sir David Frederick Attenborough
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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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There are perfectly good independent small nations.
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I would love to see a giant squid. Very few people have seen them. And only about half a dozen people have seen one alive.
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The climate suits me, and London has the greatest serious music that you can hear any day of the week in the world - you think it's going to be Vienna or Paris or somewhere, but if you go to Vienna or Paris and say, 'Let's hear some good music', there isn't any.
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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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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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The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?
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You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural history programmes should be for.
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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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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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I believe the Abominable Snowman may be real. I think there may be something in that.
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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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It's like saying that two and two equals four, but if you wish to believe it, it could also be five ... Evolution is not a theory it is a fact, every bit as much as the historical fact that William the Conqueror landed in 1066.
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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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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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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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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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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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You'll find people where their conditions aren't changing in any way, its rather rare for them to be happy.
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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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