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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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Very few species have survived unchanged. There's one called lingula, which is a little shellfish, a little brachiopod about the size of my fingernail, that has survived for 500 million years, but it's survived by being unobtrusive and doing nothing, and you can't accuse human beings of that.
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I'm against this huge globalisation on the basis of economic advantage.
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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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Climate change will affect the whole of humanity, while terrorist attacks will only affect a small section of humanity. Of course, you wouldn't say that if you were related to someone who had been beheaded or blown up or murdered.
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I'm not over-fond of animals. I am merely astounded by them.
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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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The notion of ever more old people needing ever more young people, who will in turn grow old and need even more young people, and so on ad infinitum, is an obvious ecological Ponzi scheme.
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How could I look my grandchildren in the eye and say I knew what was happening to the world and did nothing.
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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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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 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'm swanning round the world looking at the most fabulously interesting things. Such good fortune.
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Terrorism is an immediate problem that people are very concerned about, and I am as concerned about that as anyone else. But it isn't an either or situation.
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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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If my grandchildren were to look at me and say, 'You were aware species were disappearing and you did nothing, you said nothing', that I think is culpable. I don't know how much more they expect me to be doing, I'd better ask them.
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You'll discover in countries where women have control over their own bodies, where they have education, where they have birth control, where they have facilities and where they are literate, when those things happen, the birth rate falls.
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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 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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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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The idea that the Lord had given us a present, that the world is a gift from God... well, the amount of stuff, back then, that the Lord was giving away was limited. We do not have dominion.
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