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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 World is full of wonders, but they become more Wonderful, not less Wonderful when Science looks at them.
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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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It is curiosity, quite right-a divine curiosity. A characteristic of the gods is curiosity.
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I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.
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There are perfectly good independent small nations.
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I would be absolutely astounded if population growth and industrialisation and all the stuff we are pumping into the atmosphere hadn't changed the climatic balance. Of course it has. There is no valid argument for denial.
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I think the most alarming animals I have encountered are really poisonous snakes.
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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 don't like rats, but there's not much else I don't like. The problem with rats is they have no fear of human beings, they're loaded with foul diseases, they would run the place given half the chance, and I've had them leap out of a lavatory while I've been sitting on it.
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I suppose happiness is something one enjoys, but I suspect that happiness is not a state but rather a transition.
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I am an ardent recycler. I would like to think that it works. I don't know whether it does or not.
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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 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'm not over-fond of animals. I am merely astounded by them.
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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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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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You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural history programmes should be for.
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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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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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