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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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Sir David Attenborough
David Frederick Attenborough
Sir David Frederick Attenborough
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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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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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People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.
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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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The most extraordinary thing about trying to piece together the missing links in the evolutionary story is that when you do find a missing link and put it in the story, you suddenly need all these other missing links to connect to the new discovery. The gaps and questions actually increase - it's extraordinary.
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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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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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I think the most alarming animals I have encountered are really poisonous snakes.
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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 against this huge globalisation on the basis of economic advantage.
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I believe the Abominable Snowman may be real. I think there may be something in that.
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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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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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Now, I find that very difficult to reconcile with notions about a merciful God.
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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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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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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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We can now manipulate images to such an extrodinary extent that there's no lie you cannot tell.
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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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