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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. "
David Attenborough
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" The most extraordinary thing about trying to piece together the missing links in the evolutionary story is that when you do find a missing link and put it in the story, you suddenly need all these other missing links to connect to the new discovery. The gaps and questions actually increase - it's extraordinary. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" I think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home. "
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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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" You have to steer a course between not appalling people, but at the same time not misleading them. "
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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'm swanning round the world looking at the most fabulously interesting things. Such good fortune. "
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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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" If I can make programmes when I'm 95, that would be fine. But I would think I'll have had enough by then. "
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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'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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" We are a plague on the Earth. "
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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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" 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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" I don't approve of sunbathing, and it's bad for you. "
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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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" 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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