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People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly clearly. Periodic famines are due to too many people living on land that can't sustain them. ↗

— David Attenborough

#africa #clearly #due #future #happening

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 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

#any #between #come #fit #here

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

If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#away #direction #former #had #human

Well, I think In Love and War, which had a wonderful performance by Sandy, Sandra Bullock, who the authorities and, the supposed authorities, in cinema didn't want to know about. ↗

— Richard Attenborough

#authorities #bullock #cinema #had #i

We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#grownups #now #running #running away #thought

What I am interested in with birds, just as I am with spiders or monkeys, is what they do and why they do it. ↗

— David Attenborough

#birds #i #i am #interested #just

You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural history programmes should be for. ↗

— David Attenborough

#decisions #electorate #environment #get #history

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

#actually #appear #because #know #people