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David Attenborough

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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.


— David Attenborough


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Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren't aware that you are not treating them with respect, the viewers are.


— David Attenborough


#aware #conservation #did #even #his

Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on a license which is not the same as a government grant.


— David Attenborough


#britain #broadcaster #course #government #grant

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


#climate #economic #economic situation #give #give me

The fundamental issue is the moral issue.


— David Attenborough


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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.


— David Attenborough


#between #both #dependency #environment #lives

The process of making natural history films is to try to prevent the animal knowing you are there, so you get glimpses of a non-human world, and that is a transporting thing.


— David Attenborough


#films #get #glimpses #history #human 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


#book #elephant #except #grandchildren #happy

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


#different #different kinds #four #kinds #million

There is no question that climate change is happening; the only arguable point is what part humans are playing in it.


— David Attenborough


#climate #climate change #happening #humans #only






About David Attenborough

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Did you know about David Attenborough?

For the 1971 film A Blank on the Map he joined the first Western expedition to a remote highland valley in New Guinea to seek out a lost tribe. A second film The Bachelor King 3D followed a year later and further collaborations are planned. Sir David Frederick Attenborough (pron.

He is also a former senior manager at the BBC having served as controller of BBC Two and director of programming for BBC Television in the 1960s and 1970s. Sir David Frederick Attenborough (pron. : /ˈætənbərə/) OM CH CVO CBE FRS FZS FSA (born 8 May 1926) is a British broadcaster and naturalist.

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