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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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David Attenborough
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: May 8
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Fundamentally not to waste energy. If we were all to reduce our demands for energy, it would make an enormous amount of difference.
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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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I'm not over-fond of animals. I am merely astounded by them.
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There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of staying alive.
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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've been to Nepal, but I'd like to go to Tibet. It must be a wonderful place to go. I don't think there's anything there, but it would be a nice place to visit.
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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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I would love to go and see the Himalayan Mountain Kingdoms. There are very few left now. I would loved to have gone to Tibet and Nepal. And there are still parts of central Asia that are utterly unexplored.
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Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English.
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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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