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" The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates; none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason to be optimistic. "

David Attenborough

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" The most extraordinary thing about trying to piece together the missing links in the evolutionary story is that when you do find a missing link and put it in the story, you suddenly need all these other missing links to connect to the new discovery. The gaps and questions actually increase - it's extraordinary. "

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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. "

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" I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored. "

David Attenborough

" The more you go on, the less you need people standing between you and the animal and the camera waving their arms about. "

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" Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics. "

David Attenborough

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

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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. "

David Attenborough

" 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. "

David Attenborough

" 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

" 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. "

David Attenborough

" 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. "

David Attenborough

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

David Attenborough

" 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

" 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

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

David Attenborough

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

David Attenborough

" It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us about the first human being'. We are so self-obsessed with our own history. There is so much more out there than what connects to us. "

David Attenborough

" 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

" Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel. "

David Attenborough

" 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. "

David Attenborough

" 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. "

David Attenborough

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

David Attenborough

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

David Attenborough

" I'm swanning round the world looking at the most fabulously interesting things. Such good fortune. "

David Attenborough

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

David Attenborough

" Natural history is not about producing fables. "

David Attenborough

" We really need to kick the carbon habit and stop making our energy from burning things. Climate change is also really important. You can wreck one rainforest then move, drain one area of resources and move onto another, but climate change is global. "

David Attenborough

" 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. "

David Attenborough

" 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