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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.

~David Attenborough

Topics: Beauty Excitement Greatest Intellectual Interest Life Living Makes Me Much Natural Natural World Seems Source Visual World Worth Worth Living

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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.

~David Attenborough

Topics: Animals Because Between Both Dependency Environment Lives Millions Mutual Only Other Plants Rhinoceros Save Species Way Which

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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.

~David Attenborough

Topics: Biodiversity Care Just Just One Must One Or Two Range Rather Stars Than Thing Two Whole

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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

Topics: Citizens Come Country Creature Dawn Dusk Extraordinary Large Mean Might Near Never Pigeon Proportion Really See Settle Them Thing Unless Which Wild Your

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

~David Attenborough

Topics: Able Book Elephant Except Grandchildren Happy May Never Our Picture Picture Book Question See Suppose

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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.

~David Attenborough

Topics: Curiosity Fulfillment Great Natural Natural World Only Source Understanding World

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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.

~David Attenborough

Topics: Animal Birds Feed Group Inhabit Kingdom Know Most Mysterious Popular Rather Really Tame Them Think Which World

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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

Topics: Accessible Bird Birds Close Creature Ears Everyone Eyes Likes More Our Universal Us Wild World

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Crying wolf is a real danger.

~David Attenborough

Topics: Crying Danger Real Wolf

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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.

~David Attenborough

Topics: Amazement Beautiful Feel Important Must Natural Natural World People Pleasure Valuable Wonderful World

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Journalist

Born: May 8th, 1926

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