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I don't approve of sunbathing, and it's bad for you.

~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.

~David Attenborough

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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.

~David Attenborough

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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.

~David Attenborough

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I don't run a car, have never run a car. I could say that this is because I have this extremely tender environmentalist conscience, but the fact is I hate driving.

~David Attenborough

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Being in touch with the natural world is crucial.

~David Attenborough

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The fundamental issue is the moral issue.

~David Attenborough

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I'm not in politics.

~David Attenborough

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Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on a license which is not the same as a government grant.

~David Attenborough

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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.

~David Attenborough

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Journalist

Born: May 8th, 1926

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