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The fundamental issue is the moral issue.

David Attenborough

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David Attenborough
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: May 8
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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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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 find it far more awesome, wonderful, that creation our appearance in the world should be the culmination, or at least one of the latest products of 3,000 Million years of organic evolution, than a kind of country trick, taking a rib out of a man's side in a trance.
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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 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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Its about cherishing the woodland at the bottom of your garden or the stream that runs through it. It affects every aspect of life.
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The most extraordinary thing about trying to piece together the missing links in the evolutionary story is that when you do find a missing link and put it in the story, you suddenly need all these other missing links to connect to the new discovery. The gaps and questions actually increase - it's extraordinary.
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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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We can now manipulate images to such an extrodinary extent that there's no lie you cannot tell.
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Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English.
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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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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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Nothing in the natural world makes sense - except when seen in the light of evolution
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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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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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Until humanity manages to sort itself out and get a co-ordinated view about the planet, it's going to get worse and worse.
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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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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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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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