David Attenborough Quotes
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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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Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English.
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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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I think we're lucky to be living when we are, because things are going to get worse.
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I'm not in politics.
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The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?
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I think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home.
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It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species.
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Warm-bloodedness is one of the key factors that have enabled mammals to conquer the Earth, and to develop the most complex bodies in the animal kingdom. In this series, we will travel the world to discover just how varied and how astonishing mammals are.
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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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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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In moments of great grief, that's where you look and immerse yourself. You realise you are not immortal, you are not a god, you are part of the natural world and you come to accept that.
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Apart from anything else, I am designed by evolution, like we all are: if we see a little thing like that, big eyes, tiny nose, we go 'aaah'. That's what evolution does. We are programmed to do that. So to find babies the most amazing, isn't surprising, I don't think.
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I believe the Abominable Snowman may be real. I think there may be something in that.
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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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I don't approve of sunbathing, and it's bad for you.
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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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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'm against this huge globalisation on the basis of economic advantage.
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I don't run a car, have never run a car. I could say that this is because I have this extremely tender environmentalist conscience, but the fact is I hate driving.