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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. "
David Attenborough
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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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. "
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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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