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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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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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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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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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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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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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Dealing with global warming doesn't mean we have all got to suddenly stop breathing. Dealing with global warming means that we have to stop waste, and if you travel for no reason whatsoever, that is a waste.
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I often get letters, quite frequently, from people who say how they like the programmes a lot, but I never give credit to the almighty power that created nature.
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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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We can now manipulate images to such an extrodinary extent that there's no lie you cannot tell.
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Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English.
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You'll find people where their conditions aren't changing in any way, its rather rare for them to be happy.
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It's like saying that two and two equals four, but if you wish to believe it, it could also be five ... Evolution is not a theory it is a fact, every bit as much as the historical fact that William the Conqueror landed in 1066.
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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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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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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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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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Its about cherishing the woodland at the bottom of your garden or the stream that runs through it. It affects every aspect of life.
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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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I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.
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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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