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David Attenborough  Quotes
I’m against this huge globalisation on the basis of economic advantage.

—David Attenborough

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I don’t approve of sunbathing, and it’s bad for you.

—David Attenborough

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If you don’t pay attention to it… one doesn’t want to be too high-flown about this… but it can lead to a great spiritual deprivation.

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Well, I’m having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English.

—David Attenborough

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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.

—David Attenborough

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I’m absolutely strict about it. When I land, I put my watch right, and I don’t care what I feel like, I will go to bed at half past eleven. If that means going to...

—David Attenborough

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CarePast
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I’m coming towards the end of the shelf.

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Things change… I don’t think we should regard change as a disaster.

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I find it far more awesome, wonderful, that creation; our appearance in the world; should be the culmination, or at least one of the latest products of 3,000 Million years of organic evolution, than a...

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I’m not a propagandist, I’m not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how animals work.

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LookingUnderstand
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The only way Prescott is going to get through something to do with transport policy, is if the public think there are too many damn things on the road, and use the railways.

—David Attenborough

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Policy
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There are perfectly good independent small nations.

—David Attenborough

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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...

—David Attenborough

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I’m swanning round the world looking at the most fabulously interesting things. Such good fortune.

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FortuneLooking
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I’m not in politics.

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Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel.

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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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It was regarded as a responsibility of the BBC to provide programs which have a broad spectrum of interest, and if there was a hole in that spectrum, then the BBC would fill it.

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You were never quite sure which were pickpockets or loose ladies.

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Ladies
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Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on a license which is not the same as a government grant.

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British JournalistTelevision
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No one will protect what they don’t care about; and no one will care about what they have never experiened

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Natural history is not about producing fables.

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I remember sleeping in places that were infested with rats and waking up with one trundling over my face. Actually, I hate rats! In my time, I’ve picked up all sorts of things in hotels-fleas,...

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Getting to places like Bangkok or Singapore was a hell of a sweat. But when you got there it was the back of beyond. It was just a series of small tin sheds.

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The most extraordinary thing about trying to piece together the missing links in the evolutionary story is that when you do find a missing link and put it in the story, you suddenly need all...

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The whole of science, and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man, is trying to come to terms with the relationship between yourself and the natural world. Why...

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Thinking
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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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FineProgrammes
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I mean, one is living an amazingly privileged life. It’s only been the last 20 or so years that one could have possibly gone to all the places you and I go to.

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Life
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You know, we could say yes, they were about to exterminate sea horses and now they aren’t… But it isn’t a solution to the world’s problems.

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Horses
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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...

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You don’t meet many 5-year-olds who are not interested in a hedgehog or a stickleback.

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It’s not just that we are dependent on the natural world for our food and for the very air we breathe-which is, of course, the case-and that the very richness of the natural world continues...

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Food
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It’s coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It’s not just climate change; it’s sheer space, places to grow food for this enormous horde. Either we limit our population growth or...

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I like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. The travel bit is what you have to do in order to go and look at animals.

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Neither have I said we have got to do this because of some pharmaceutical advantage there may or may not be. The moral issue is that we should not impoverish this world.

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Advantage
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People knew that animals were nocturnal but they didn’t really know what they did because they couldn’t see it.

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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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Nature isn’t positive in that way. It doesn’t aim itself at you. It’s not being unkind to you.

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Itself
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The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates; none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason to be optimistic.

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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 asked the airline staff what I was going to do with all the animals as I didn’t have any food for them. They were very unhelpful.

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Animals
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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...

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Very few people in the history of biology could have seen as much of the actual things that I have, and the sad thing is that I do so little with it. I’m so busy...

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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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British JournalistPeople
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There is no question that climate change is happening; the only arguable point is what part humans are playing in it.

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Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren’t aware that you are not treating them with respect, the viewers are.

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Wonderful
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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...

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BeautyBritish Journalist
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Here we are with even the most obvious things like a fishing policy or a transport policy-we know what the consequences are.

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I’m not an animal lover if that means you think things are nice if you can pat them, but I am intoxicated by animals.

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AnimalsMeansNice
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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.

—David Attenborough

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