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" If I can bicycle, I bicycle. "

David Attenborough

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" I don't think we are going to become extinct. We're very clever and extremely resourceful - and we will find ways of preserving ourselves, of that I'm sure. But whether our lives will be as rich as they are now is another question. "

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

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" I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored. "

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

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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 more you go on, the less you need people standing between you and the animal and the camera waving their arms about. "

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" Crying wolf is a real danger. "

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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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" 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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" We are a plague on the Earth. "

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

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" 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. "

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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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" 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 think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home. "

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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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" 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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" 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. "

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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? "

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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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" 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. "

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