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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.
David Attenborough
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David Attenborough
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: May 8
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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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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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I'm not over-fond of animals. I am merely astounded by them.
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An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment...
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I find it far more awesome, wonderful, that creation our appearance in the world should be the culmination, or at least one of the latest products of 3,000 Million years of organic evolution, than a kind of country trick, taking a rib out of a man's side in a trance.
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Humanity is facing a very big, slow, long, drawn-out threat, and that is to do with the way the weather is changing and the size of the population.
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Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel.
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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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I often get letters, quite frequently, from people who say how they like the programmes a lot, but I never give credit to the almighty power that created nature.
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Nothing in the natural world makes sense - except when seen in the light of evolution
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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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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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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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Climate change will affect the whole of humanity, while terrorist attacks will only affect a small section of humanity. Of course, you wouldn't say that if you were related to someone who had been beheaded or blown up or murdered.
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Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English.
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