Human beings Quotes by David Attenborough

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David Attenborough connects our species to the broader web of life. In nine concise thoughts he highlights the responsibility we share to protect the planet we call home.

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It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us…

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I don't like rats, but there's not much else I don't like. The problem with rats is they have no fear of…

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The nature of human beings is that they'd far rather face the disaster that is happening tonight than the one that is…

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Children start off reading in books about lions and giraffes and so on, but they also-if theyre lucky enough and have reasonable…

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The only acceptable way to solve ecological problems is if you can persuade people to have fewer children. In the Victorian times,…

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There's a small worm called Loa Loa Filariasis. This parasite can survive in one environment exclusively- namely, underneath the skin and inside…

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At a time when it's possible for thirty people to stand on the top of Everest in one day, Antarctica still remains…

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Very few species have survived unchanged. There's one called lingula, which is a little shellfish, a little brachiopod about the size of…

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Human beings, because we're so clever, have removed every single one of those population limiting factors... So nothing controls our increase in…

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I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.

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I'm against this huge globalisation on the basis of economic advantage.

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Bringing nature into the classroom can kindle a fascination and passion for the diversity of life on earth and can motivate a sense of…

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I don't approve of sunbathing, and it's bad for you.

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I suspect that happiness is not a state but rather a transition.

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I don't like rats, but there's not much else I don't like. The problem with rats is they have no fear of human beings,…

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“We only know a tiny proportion about the complexity of the natural world. Wherever you look, there are still things we don’t know about…

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At a time when it's possible for thirty people to stand on the top of Everest in one day, Antarctica still remains a remote,…

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I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours of arrival.

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I'm not over-fond of animals. I am merely astounded by them.

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Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on…

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This last chapter .. may have given the impression that somehow man is the ultimate triumph of evolution, that all these millions of years…

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To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can see. The Archbishop of…

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In the Baboon community, it is not how strong you are that is important, but who you know that counts

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