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Them Quotes by David Attenborough
- Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know them. And yet they inhabit…
- I'm not an animal lover if that means you think things are nice if you can pat them, but I am intoxicated by animals.
- You have to steer a course between not appalling people, but at the same time not misleading them.
- I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see a wild creature…
- 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…
- Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that gives them a…
- In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn't use…
- 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…
- You've got to be fairly solemn [about the environment]. I mean the mere notion that there are three times as many people on Earth as…
- I'm not over-fond of animals. I am merely astounded by them.
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