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All life is related. And it enables us to construct with confidence the complex tree that represents the history of life

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David Attenborough
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: May 8
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I can mention many moments that were unforgettable and revelatory. But the most single revelatory three minutes was the first time I put on scuba gear and dived on a coral reef. It's just the unbelievable fact that you can move in three dimensions.
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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 only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between it and millions of other species of both animals and plants.
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Dealing with global warming doesn't mean we have all got to suddenly stop breathing. Dealing with global warming means that we have to stop waste, and if you travel for no reason whatsoever, that is a waste.
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All the modern devices we have enable us to investigate things and have enabled us to do better.
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All we can hope for is that the thing is going to slowly and imperceptibly shift. All I can say is that 50 years ago there were no such thing as environmental policies.
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I am an ardent recycler. I would like to think that it works. I don't know whether it does or not.
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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 just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.
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I would be absolutely astounded if population growth and industrialisation and all the stuff we are pumping into the atmosphere hadn't changed the climatic balance. Of course it has. There is no valid argument for denial.
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I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours of arrival.
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I'm no longer sceptical. I no longer have any doubt at all. I think climate change is the major challenge facing the world.
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Birds are the most accomplished aeronauts the world has ever seen. They fly high and low, at great speed, and very slowly. And always with extraordinary precision and control.
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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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People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.
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Nothing in the natural world makes sense - except when seen in the light of evolution
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To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can see. The Archbishop of Canterbury doesn't believe that.
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No one will protect what they don't care about, and no one will care about what they have never experienced.
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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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