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David Attenborough
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: May 8
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David Frederick Attenborough
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I think the most alarming animals I have encountered are really poisonous snakes.
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If my grandchildren were to look at me and say, 'You were aware species were disappearing and you did nothing, you said nothing', that I think is culpable. I don't know how much more they expect me to be doing, I'd better ask them.
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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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Getting to places like Bangkok or Singapore was a hell of a sweat. But when you got there it was the back of beyond. It was just a series of small tin sheds.
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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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Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel.
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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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Apart from anything else, I am designed by evolution, like we all are: if we see a little thing like that, big eyes, tiny nose, we go 'aaah'. That's what evolution does. We are programmed to do that. So to find babies the most amazing, isn't surprising, I don't think.
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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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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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Now, I find that very difficult to reconcile with notions about a merciful God.
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The idea that the Lord had given us a present, that the world is a gift from God... well, the amount of stuff, back then, that the Lord was giving away was limited. We do not have dominion.
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Nothing in the natural world makes sense - except when seen in the light of evolution
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I'm swanning round the world looking at the most fabulously interesting things. Such good fortune.
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I'm not over-fond of animals. I am merely astounded by them.
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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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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.
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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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The World is full of wonders, but they become more Wonderful, not less Wonderful when Science looks at them.
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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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