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I'm not over-fond of animals. I am merely astounded by them.

David Attenborough

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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 would love to go and see the Himalayan Mountain Kingdoms. There are very few left now. I would loved to have gone to Tibet and Nepal. And there are still parts of central Asia that are utterly unexplored.
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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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As far as I'm concerned, if there is a supreme being then He chose organic evolution as a way of bringing into existence the natural world... which doesn't seem to me to be necessarily blasphemous at all.
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All our environmental problems become easier to solve with fewer people and harder - and ultimately impossible to solve - with ever more people.
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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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You can cry about death and very properly so, your own as well as anybody else's. But it's inevitable, so you'd better grapple with it and cope and be aware that not only is it inevitable, but it has always been inevitable, if you see what I mean.
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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 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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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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Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone in the world, as universal as a bird?
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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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Since when has Finland been a rotten place to live in?
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Using his burgeoning intelligence, this most successful of all mammals has exploited the environment to produce food for an ever increasing population. Instead of controlling the environment for the benefit of the population, perhaps it's time we controlled the population to allow the survival of the environment.
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You have to steer a course between not appalling people, but at the same time not misleading them.
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