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" I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored. "
David Attenborough
Big
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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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" 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've been bitten by a python. Not a very big one. I was being silly, saying: 'Oh, it's not poisonous...' Then, wallop! But you have fear around animals. "
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" I'm swanning round the world looking at the most fabulously interesting things. Such good fortune. "
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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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" It is that range of biodiversity that we must care for - the whole thing - rather than just one or two stars. "
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" I'm luckier than my grandfather, who didn't move more than five miles from the village in which he was born. "
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" All we can hope for is that the thing is going to slowly and imperceptibly shift. All I can say is that 50 years ago there were no such thing as environmental policies. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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 the natural world will do it for us, and the natural world is doing it for us right now. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" The climate suits me, and London has the greatest serious music that you can hear any day of the week in the world - you think it's going to be Vienna or Paris or somewhere, but if you go to Vienna or Paris and say, 'Let's hear some good music', there isn't any. "
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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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" 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. "
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" I'm against this huge globalisation on the basis of economic advantage. "
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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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" 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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" It is vital that there is a narrator figure whom people believe. That's why I never do commercials. If I started saying that margarine was the same as motherhood, people would think I was a liar. "
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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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