British - Journalist | May 8, 1926 -
All our environmental problems become easier to solve with fewer people and harder - and ultimately impossible to solve - with ever more people.
David Attenborough
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I can mention many moments that were unforgettable and revelatory. But the most single revelatory three minutes was the first time I put on scuba gear and dived on a coral reef. It's just the unbelievable fact that you can move in three dimensions.
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I would be absolutely astounded if population growth and industrialisation and all the stuff we are pumping into the atmosphere hadn't changed the climatic balance. Of course it has. There is no valid argument for denial.
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It's coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It's not just climate change; it's sheer space, places to grow food for this enormous horde. Either we limit our population growth or the natural world will do it for us, and the natural world is doing it for us right now.
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Crying wolf is a real danger.
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There is no question that climate change is happening; the only arguable point is what part humans are playing in it.
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People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.
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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.
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It is that range of biodiversity that we must care for - the whole thing - rather than just one or two stars.
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I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.
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There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of staying alive.
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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.
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