British - Journalist | May 8, 1926 -
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
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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?
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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.
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If I can bicycle, I bicycle.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I believe the Abominable Snowman may be real. I think there may be something in that.
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People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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