British - Journalist | May 8, 1926 -
We are a plague on the Earth.
David Attenborough
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You know, it is a terrible thing to appear on television, because people think that you actually know what you're talking about.
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Natural history is not about producing fables.
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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.
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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.
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Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English.
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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.
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What I am interested in with birds, just as I am with spiders or monkeys, is what they do and why they do it.
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The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates; none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason to be optimistic.
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I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how animals work.
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You can cry about death and very properly so, your own as well as anybody else's. But it's inevitable, so you'd better grapple with it and cope and be aware that not only is it inevitable, but it has always been inevitable, if you see what I mean.
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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.
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