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David Attenborough
David Attenborough
British Journalist
Born: May 8, 1926
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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
Life Me Natural World Worth Beauty Living Worth Living Visual Seems Excitement Makes Greatest Source Intellectual Interest Much Natural World
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
Happy Book Picture Our See Able Except Never Picture Book Suppose Question May Grandchildren Elephant
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
Plants Animals Other Way Mutual Only Both Environment Between Because Dependency Rhinoceros Which Species Lives Millions Save
We are a plague on the Earth. David Attenborough
Earth Plague
The whole of science, and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man, is trying to come to terms with the relationship between yourself and the natural world. Why are you here, and how do you fit in, and what's it all 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
Success Politics Change Economics Our Only Individuals Come Real Doing Real Success Many Societies
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
Great Natural World Understanding Only Source Curiosity Fulfillment Natural World
There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of staying alive. David Attenborough
World Problems Plants Animals Different Kinds Alive Solutions Kinds Some Staying Different Million Four
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
Eyes World Bird Birds Wild Everyone Our Ears More Likes Accessible Close Us Creature Universal
I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored. David Attenborough
World Wish Half Big Still Unexplored Just Twice
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
Hate Car Extremely Say Run Fact Tender Could Never Driving Environmentalist Because Conscience
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. David Attenborough
Life Time You Generation Animals Aim Objectively Driven Main Genes Pass Conclusion Any Length Next Next Generation Watch
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
Country Settle Wild Extraordinary Unless Citizens See Proportion Never Dawn Come Pigeon Dusk Which Mean Them Might Really Your Large Creature Near Thing
Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English. David Attenborough
Time Good Me Good Time Too Guilty Having Having A Good Time Feel Well Makes How Very Which English
People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure. David Attenborough
Beautiful Natural People Wonderful World Amazing Valuable Important Pleasure Must Feel Amazement Natural World
I'm luckier than my grandfather, who didn't move more than five miles from the village in which he was born. David Attenborough
Born More He Five Than Move Which Grandfather Miles Who Luckier Village
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. David Attenborough
You Few Nothing About Unchanged Doing Years Very Survived Accuse Human Being Size Human Beings Which Little Beings Species Million Million Years
I think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home. David Attenborough
Time Home Me Travel Think Tells Nobody Major Psychological Element Ever
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
You People Think Television About Know Terrible Terrible Thing Talking Because Appear Actually Thing
The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates; none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason to be optimistic. David Attenborough
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You have to steer a course between not appalling people, but at the same time not misleading them. David Attenborough
Time You People Steer Misleading Between Course Same Same Time Them Appalling
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
You Animal People Waving About More Between Arms Go Camera Less Standing Need
The climate suits me, and London has the greatest serious music that you can hear any day of the week in the world - you think it's going to be Vienna or Paris or somewhere, but if you go to Vienna or Paris and say, 'Let's hear some good music', there isn't any. 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
You Library World Everything Fine London Institutions Greatest Got Want Really British Museums
Getting to places like Bangkok or Singapore was a hell of a sweat. But when you got there it was the back of beyond. It was just a series of small tin sheds. David Attenborough
You Hell Back Small Like Beyond Singapore Sheds Got Tin Bangkok Getting Just Places Sweat Series
I don't approve of sunbathing, and it's bad for you. David Attenborough
You Approve Bad
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