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

David Attenborough

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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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" I'm against this huge globalisation on the basis of economic advantage. "

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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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" Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know them. And yet they inhabit a world which is really rather mysterious. "

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

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

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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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" 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 are you here, and how do you fit in, and what's it all about. "

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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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" An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment. "

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

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" You know, it is a terrible thing to appear on television, because people think that you actually know what you're talking about. "

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" The fundamental issue is the moral issue. "

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

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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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" In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn't use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes. "

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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. "

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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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" 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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" Being in touch with the natural world is crucial. "

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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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" We keep putting on programmes about famine in Ethiopia; that's what's happening. Too many people there. They can't support themselves - and it's not an inhuman thing to say. It's the case. Until humanity manages to sort itself out and get a coordinated view about the planet it's going to get worse and worse. "

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" There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of staying alive. "

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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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" Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that gives them a sixth sense of what the creature is going to do, so they can be ready to follow. "

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

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" You can cry about death and very properly so, your own as well as anybody else's. But it's inevitable, so you'd better grapple with it and cope and be aware that not only is it inevitable, but it has always been inevitable, if you see what I mean. "

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