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The World is full of wonders, but they become more Wonderful, not less Wonderful when Science looks at them.
David Attenborough
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David Attenborough
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: May 8
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An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment...
David Attenborough
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'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.
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People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.
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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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Since when has Finland been a rotten place to live in?
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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In the West, that's what's happening. The birth rate has been dropping steadily and still is. But there is still a vast amount of the world where that's not the case. And that is where the big population growth is taking place.
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Nothing in the natural world makes sense - except when seen in the light of evolution
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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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It is curiosity, quite right-a divine curiosity. A characteristic of the gods is curiosity.
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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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