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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.

David Attenborough

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David Attenborough
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: May 8
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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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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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The fundamental issue is the moral issue.
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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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It never really occurred to me to believe in God.
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