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

David Attenborough

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" 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. "

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" Being in touch with the natural world is crucial. "

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" 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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" Natural history is not about producing fables. "

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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. "

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" 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. "

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

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

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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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" 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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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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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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" 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. "

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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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" Crying wolf is a real danger. "

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" The fundamental issue is the moral issue. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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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 approve of sunbathing, and it's bad for you. "

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" 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. "

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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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" If I can make programmes when I'm 95, that would be fine. But I would think I'll have had enough by then. "

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