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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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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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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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All life is related. And it enables us to construct with confidence the complex tree that represents the history of life
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I don't think we are going to become extinct. We're very clever and extremely resourceful - and we will find ways of preserving ourselves, of that I'm sure. But whether our lives will be as rich as they are now is another question.
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People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly clearly. Periodic famines are due to too many people living on land that can't sustain them.
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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...
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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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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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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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You have to steer a course between not appalling people, but at the same time not misleading them.
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Now, I find that very difficult to reconcile with notions about a merciful God.
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There are perfectly good independent small nations.
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Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English.
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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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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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Humanity is facing a very big, slow, long, drawn-out threat, and that is to do with the way the weather is changing and the size of the population.
David Attenborough
I think the most alarming animals I have encountered are really poisonous snakes.
David Attenborough
Until humanity manages to sort itself out and get a co-ordinated view about the planet, it's going to get worse and worse.
David Attenborough
It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species.
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