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

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

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" You have to steer a course between not appalling people, but at the same time not misleading them. "

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" You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural history programmes should be for. "

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" Crying wolf is a real danger. "

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" I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored. "

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" I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see a wild creature from dawn 'til dusk, unless it's a pigeon, which isn't really wild, which might come and settle near them. "

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

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" Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics. "

David Attenborough

" The process of making natural history films is to try to prevent the animal knowing you are there, so you get glimpses of a non-human world, and that is a transporting thing. "

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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. "

David Attenborough

" 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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" 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. "

David Attenborough

" I think we're lucky to be living when we are, because things are going to get worse. "

David Attenborough

" We really need to kick the carbon habit and stop making our energy from burning things. Climate change is also really important. You can wreck one rainforest then move, drain one area of resources and move onto another, but climate change is global. "

David Attenborough

" 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. "

David Attenborough

" It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species. "

David Attenborough

" I'd like to see the giant squid. Nobody has ever seen one. I could tell you people who have spent thousands and thousands of pounds trying to see giant squid. I mean, we know they exist because we have seen dead ones. But I have never seen a living one. Nor has anybody else. "

David Attenborough

" 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. "

David Attenborough

" If I can make programmes when I'm 95, that would be fine. But I would think I'll have had enough by then. "

David Attenborough

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

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" If I can bicycle, I bicycle. "

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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. "

David Attenborough

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

David Attenborough

" 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. "

David Attenborough