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David Attenborough
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: May 8
Actor
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Sir David Attenborough
David Frederick Attenborough
Sir David Frederick Attenborough
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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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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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If we and the rest of the back-boned animals were to disappear overnight, the rest of the world would get on pretty well. But if the invertebrates were to disappear, the world's ecosystems would collapse
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The more you go on, the less you need people standing between you and the animal and the camera waving their arms about.
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I believe the Abominable Snowman may be real. I think there may be something in that.
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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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I think the most alarming animals I have encountered are really poisonous snakes.
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What humans do over the next 50 years will determine the fate of all life on the planet.
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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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I'm against this huge globalisation on the basis of economic advantage.
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