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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. "
David Attenborough
Colleagues
Film
I Am
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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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World
" 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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Amazing
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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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" Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone in the world, as universal as a bird? "
David Attenborough
Bird
Birds
Everyone
" 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. "
David Attenborough
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You
Size
" Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English. "
David Attenborough
Good
Having A Good Time
Me
" I'm luckier than my grandfather, who didn't move more than five miles from the village in which he was born. "
David Attenborough
Village
Born
Move
" 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. "
David Attenborough
Adventure
Myself
Job
" Being in touch with the natural world is crucial. "
David Attenborough
World
Touch
Natural World
" 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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Stars
Two
Biodiversity
" 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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Know
Grandchildren
Think
" 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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Know
World
Animal
" 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. "
David Attenborough
Space
Home
Change
" 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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Like
Know
I Am
" Crying wolf is a real danger. "
David Attenborough
Wolf
Real
Danger
" Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel. "
David Attenborough
Joined
Travel
Order
" The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book? "
David Attenborough
Book
Picture
Happy
" We are not overpopulated in an absolute sense; we've got the technology for 10 billion, probably 15 billion people, to live on this planet and live good lives. What we haven't done is developed our technology. "
David Attenborough
People
Live
Done
" I'm against this huge globalisation on the basis of economic advantage. "
David Attenborough
Globalisation
Huge
Against
" 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
Spectrum
Interest
Responsibility
" We are a plague on the Earth. "
David Attenborough
Earth
Plague
" 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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Good
Music
Day
" 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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Point
Change
Question
" 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. "
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Change
Success
Politics
" 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. "
David Attenborough
Man
Think
Science
" 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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Run
Chance
Leap
" 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
See
People
Living
" 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
Like
Go
Wonderful
" 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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Think
Animal
Animals
" 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
Change
Energy
Habit