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" I'm against this huge globalisation on the basis of economic advantage. "

David Attenborough

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" Natural history is not about producing fables. "

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" 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. "

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" 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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" 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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" I think we're lucky to be living when we are, because things are going to get worse. "

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" I can mention many moments that were unforgettable and revelatory. But the most single revelatory three minutes was the first time I put on scuba gear and dived on a coral reef. It's just the unbelievable fact that you can move in three dimensions. "

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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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" I believe the Abominable Snowman may be real. I think there may be something in that. "

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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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 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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" 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 luckier than my grandfather, who didn't move more than five miles from the village in which he was born. "

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" 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. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" I'm not in politics. "

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

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" We are a plague on the Earth. "

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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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