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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 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. "

David Attenborough

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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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile. "

" People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure. "

" Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English. "

David Attenborough

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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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of staying alive. "

" We are a plague on the Earth. "

David Attenborough

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There is no question that climate change is happening; the only arguable point is what part humans are playing in it. "

" 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. "

" The fundamental issue is the moral issue. "

" It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species. "

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

" 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. "

" As far as I'm concerned, if there is a supreme being then He chose organic evolution as a way of bringing into existence the natural world... which doesn't seem to me to be necessarily blasphemous at all. "

" The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book? "

" All our environmental problems become easier to solve with fewer people and harder - and ultimately impossible to solve - with ever more people. "

" It is vital that there is a narrator figure whom people believe. That's why I never do commercials. If I started saying that margarine was the same as motherhood, people would think I was a liar. "

" 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. "