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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. "

David Attenborough

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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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" 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 bed early or late, that's what I live by. As soon as you get there, live by that time. "

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" If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in life is to pass on their genes to the next generation. "

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" The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between it and millions of other species of both animals and plants. "

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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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" 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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" I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours of arrival. "

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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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" 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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" People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile. "

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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 think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home. "

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" I'm not in politics. "

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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 being unobtrusive and doing nothing, and you can't accuse human beings of that. "

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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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" If my grandchildren were to look at me and say, 'You were aware species were disappearing and you did nothing, you said nothing', that I think is culpable. I don't know how much more they expect me to be doing, I'd better ask them. "

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" All our environmental problems become easier to solve with fewer people and harder - and ultimately impossible to solve - with ever more people. "

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" Crying wolf is a real danger. "

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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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" 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 them. "

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" It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us about the first human being'. We are so self-obsessed with our own history. There is so much more out there than what connects to us. "

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" I believe the Abominable Snowman may be real. I think there may be something in that. "

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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. "

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

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" I had a huge advantage when I started 50 years ago - my job was secure. I didn't have to promote myself. These days there's far more pressure to make a mark, so the temptation is to make adventure television or personality shows. I hope the more didactic approach won't be lost. "

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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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" The fundamental issue is the moral issue. "

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