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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.
David Attenborough
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David Attenborough
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: May 8
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The fact is that no species has ever had such wholesale control over everything on earth, living or dead, as we now have. That lays upon us, whether we like it or not, an awesome responsibility. In our hands now lies not only our own future, but that of all other living creatures with whom we share the earth.
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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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If I can make programmes when I'm 95, that would be fine. But I would think I'll have had enough by then.
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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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I believe the Abominable Snowman may be real. I think there may be something in that.
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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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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 remember when we were in the World Cup in Australia and I had to win the singles against Tony Payne, best of seven legs, to win it. I was 2-0 down but ended up beating him 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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Now, I find that very difficult to reconcile with notions about a merciful God.
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I'd like to see the giant squid. Nobody has ever seen one. I could tell you people who have spent thousands and thousands of pounds trying to see giant squid. I mean, we know they exist because we have seen dead ones. But I have never seen a living one. Nor has anybody else.
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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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I have no doubt that the fundamental problem the planet faces is the enormous increase in the human population
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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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The reverse side of the coin in having this extraordinary ability to go anywhere, is that no one anywhere is remote any more.
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Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel.
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Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English.
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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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It never really occurred to me to believe in God.
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