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There are perfectly good independent small nations.
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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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It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species.
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We keep putting on programmes about famine in Ethiopia that’s what’s happening. Too many people there. They can’t support themselves — and it’s not an inhuman thing to say. It’s the case. Until humanity manages to sort itself out and get a coordinated view about the planet it’s going to get worse and worse.
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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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The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?
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