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I suppose happiness is something one enjoys, but I suspect that happiness is not a state but rather a transition.

David Attenborough

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David Attenborough
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: May 8
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I'm swanning round the world looking at the most fabulously interesting things. Such good fortune.
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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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Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English.
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I have no doubt that the fundamental problem the planet faces is the enormous increase in the human population
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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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The climate suits me, and London has the greatest serious music that you can hear any day of the week in the world - you think it's going to be Vienna or Paris or somewhere, but if you go to Vienna or Paris and say, 'Let's hear some good music', there isn't any.
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I believe the Abominable Snowman may be real. I think there may be something in that.
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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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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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Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone in the world, as universal as a bird?
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It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement the greatest source of visual beauty the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.
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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 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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