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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. "
David Attenborough
You
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World
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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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" 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
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Dawn
" 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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" 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
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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. "
David Attenborough
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" The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between it and millions of other species of both animals and plants. "
David Attenborough
Way
Only
Animals
" It was regarded as a responsibility of the BBC to provide programs which have a broad spectrum of interest, and if there was a hole in that spectrum, then the BBC would fill it. "
David Attenborough
Spectrum
Interest
Responsibility
" I'm not in politics. "
David Attenborough
Politics
" Dealing with global warming doesn't mean we have all got to suddenly stop breathing. Dealing with global warming means that we have to stop waste, and if you travel for no reason whatsoever, that is a waste. "
David Attenborough
Stop
Breathing
Reason
" 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
" 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
" 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. "
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Animals
You
Travel
" I believe the Abominable Snowman may be real. I think there may be something in that. "
David Attenborough
Be Real
Think
Real
" I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored. "
David Attenborough
Big
Wish
World
" 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'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. "
David Attenborough
Early
You
Time
" 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
" I think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home. "
David Attenborough
Travel
Nobody
Think
" You have to steer a course between not appalling people, but at the same time not misleading them. "
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Same
People
You
" People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile. "
David Attenborough
Think
Animal
Animals
" If I can bicycle, I bicycle. "
David Attenborough
Bicycle
I Can
" 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. "
David Attenborough
You
Silly
Animals
" 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
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Wonderful
" 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
" You know, it is a terrible thing to appear on television, because people think that you actually know what you're talking about. "
David Attenborough
Think
Know
Television
" 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. "
David Attenborough
Humanity
People
View
" 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. "
David Attenborough
People
Ready
Know
" Nature isn't positive in that way. It doesn't aim itself at you. It's not being unkind to you. "
David Attenborough
Way
Being
You
" I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours of arrival. "
David Attenborough
Colleagues
Film
I Am
" In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn't use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes. "
David Attenborough
My Own
Own
History