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" I think we're lucky to be living when we are, because things are going to get worse. "
David Attenborough
Living
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" Being in touch with the natural world is crucial. "
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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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" 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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You
Silly
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" To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can see. The Archbishop of Canterbury doesn't believe that. "
David Attenborough
I Can
God
Children
" I don't approve of sunbathing, and it's bad for you. "
David Attenborough
You
Approve
Bad
" 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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Alive
World
Problems
" The fundamental issue is the moral issue. "
David Attenborough
Issue
Moral Issue
Fundamental
" 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. "
David Attenborough
Good
Music
Day
" You have to steer a course between not appalling people, but at the same time not misleading them. "
David Attenborough
Same
People
You
" 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. "
David Attenborough
Always
Better
Cry
" 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
" 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
" An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment. "
David Attenborough
Understanding
World
Great
" 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
Argument
Denial
Growth
" Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on a license which is not the same as a government grant. "
David Attenborough
Government
Same
Television
" Getting to places like Bangkok or Singapore was a hell of a sweat. But when you got there it was the back of beyond. It was just a series of small tin sheds. "
David Attenborough
Sweat
Singapore
Hell
" 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. "
David Attenborough
Respect
Animals
You
" 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
You
Living
People
" 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. "
David Attenborough
You
Time
Animals
" If I can bicycle, I bicycle. "
David Attenborough
Bicycle
I Can
" Crying wolf is a real danger. "
David Attenborough
Wolf
Real
Danger
" 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
Know
Grandchildren
Think
" 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. "
David Attenborough
Process
You
Animal
" 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
" 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. "
David Attenborough
Say
Driving
Car
" 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 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. "
David Attenborough
Animals
You
Travel
" 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. "
David Attenborough
See
Mean
Dawn
" The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates; none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason to be optimistic. "
David Attenborough
Me
Hope
Give
" The more you go on, the less you need people standing between you and the animal and the camera waving their arms about. "
David Attenborough
Animal
You
People