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" The climate suits me, and London has the greatest serious music that you can hear any day of the week in the world - you think it's going to be Vienna or Paris or somewhere, but if you go to Vienna or Paris and say, 'Let's hear some good music', there isn't any. "

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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? "

David Attenborough

Bird

Birds

Everyone

" I don't approve of sunbathing, and it's bad for you. "

" 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. "

" 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

Wonderful

" 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. "

" All we can hope for is that the thing is going to slowly and imperceptibly shift. All I can say is that 50 years ago there were no such thing as environmental policies. "

" London has fine museums, the British Library is one of the greatest library institutions in the world... It's got everything you want, really. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

David Attenborough

Good

Having A Good Time

" An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Nature isn't positive in that way. It doesn't aim itself at you. It's not being unkind to you. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I am an ardent recycler. I would like to think that it works. I don't know whether it does or not. "

David Attenborough

Know

I Am

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

" Natural history is not about producing fables. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I'm not in politics. "

David Attenborough

Politics

" I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how animals work. "

" I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours of arrival. "

" 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. "