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I've been bitten by a python. Not a very big one. I was being silly, saying: 'Oh, it's not poisonous' Then, wallop! But you have fear around animals.
David Attenborough
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David Attenborough
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: May 8
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David Frederick Attenborough
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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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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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I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.
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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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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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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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It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement the greatest source of visual beauty the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.
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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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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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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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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 believe the Abominable Snowman may be real. I think there may be something in that.
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The fundamental issue is the moral issue.
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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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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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In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn't use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes.
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You have to steer a course between not appalling people, but at the same time not misleading them.
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