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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.

~David Attenborough

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I am an ardent recycler. I would like to think that it works. I don't know whether it does or not.

~David Attenborough

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I'd like to see the giant squid. Nobody has ever seen one. I could tell you people who have spent thousands and thousands of pounds trying to see giant squid. I mean, we know they exist because we have seen dead ones. But I have never seen a living one. Nor has anybody else.

~David Attenborough

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We are a plague on the Earth.

~David Attenborough

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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.

~David Attenborough

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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.

~David Attenborough

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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.

~David Attenborough

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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.

~David Attenborough

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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.

~David Attenborough

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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.

~David Attenborough

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Journalist

Born: May 8th, 1926

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