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

David Attenborough

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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. "

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" 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. "

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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. "

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" Very few species have survived unchanged. There's one called lingula, which is a little shellfish, a little brachiopod about the size of my fingernail, that has survived for 500 million years, but it's survived by being unobtrusive and doing nothing, and you can't accuse human beings of that. "

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" 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. "

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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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" We are a plague on the Earth. "

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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. "

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

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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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" I'm not in politics. "

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" Natural history is not about producing fables. "

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" 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. "

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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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" 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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" The fundamental issue is the moral issue. "

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

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

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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