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All we can hope for is that the thing is going to slowly and imperceptibly shift. All I can say is that 50 years ago there were no such thing as environmental policies.
David Attenborough
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David Attenborough
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: May 8
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Environmentalist
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London
England
Sir David Attenborough
David Frederick Attenborough
Sir David Frederick Attenborough
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How could I look my grandchildren in the eye and say I knew what was happening to the world and did nothing.
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It is curiosity, quite right-a divine curiosity. A characteristic of the gods is curiosity.
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I believe the Abominable Snowman may be real. I think there may be something in that.
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I suppose happiness is something one enjoys, but I suspect that happiness is not a state but rather a transition.
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They always mean beautiful things like hummingbirds. I always reply by saying that I think of a little child in east Africa with a worm burrowing through his eyeball. The worm cannot live in any other way, except by burrowing through eyeballs. I find that hard to reconcile with the notion of a divine and benevolent creator.
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Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone in the world, as universal as a bird?
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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 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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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 process of making natural history films is to try to prevent the animal knowing you are there, so you get glimpses of a non-human world, and that is a transporting thing.
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