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" It is that range of biodiversity that we must care for - the whole thing - rather than just one or two stars. "
David Attenborough
Stars
Two
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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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" 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. "
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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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" 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 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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" 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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" All our environmental problems become easier to solve with fewer people and harder - and ultimately impossible to solve - with ever more people. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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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" Natural history is not about producing fables. "
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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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" 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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" An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment. "
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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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" If I can bicycle, I bicycle. "
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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. "
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" Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that gives them a sixth sense of what the creature is going to do, so they can be ready to follow. "
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" It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living. "
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" You have to steer a course between not appalling people, but at the same time not misleading them. "
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" I'm against this huge globalisation on the basis of economic advantage. "
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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 think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book? "
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" I don't approve of sunbathing, and it's bad for you. "
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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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