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I think we're lucky to be living when we are, because things are going to get worse.

~David Attenborough

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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.

~David Attenborough

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

~David Attenborough

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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

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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

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

~David Attenborough

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

~David Attenborough

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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.

~David Attenborough

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Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that gives them a sixth sense of what the creature is going to do, so they can be ready to follow.

~David Attenborough

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

~David Attenborough

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Journalist

Born: May 8th, 1926

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