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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.
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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They always mean beautiful things like hummingbirds. I always reply by saying that I think of a little child in east Africa with a worm burrowing through his eyeball. The worm cannot live in any other way, except by burrowing through eyeballs. I find that hard to reconcile with the notion of a divine and benevolent creator.
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I suppose happiness is something one enjoys, but I suspect that happiness is not a state but rather a transition.
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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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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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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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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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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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People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly clearly. Periodic famines are due to too many people living on land that can't sustain them.
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I'm against this huge globalisation on the basis of economic advantage.
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I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.
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The fundamental issue is the moral issue.
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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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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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I have no doubt that the fundamental problem the planet faces is the enormous increase in the human population
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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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We really need to kick the carbon habit and stop making our energy from burning things. Climate change is also really important. You can wreck one rainforest then move, drain one area of resources and move onto another, but climate change is global.
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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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Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that gives them a sixth sense of what the creature is going to do, so they can be ready to follow.
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