Animal Quote by David Attenborough

“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.”

David Attenborough

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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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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, lonely and desolate continent. A place where it's possible to see the splendours and immensities of the natural world at its most dramatic and, what's more, witness them almost exactly as they were, long, long before…

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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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Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world.

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When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant.

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A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!

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“What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one is food for worms. This is the terror: to have emerged from nothing, to have a name, consciousness of self, deep inner feelings, an excruciating inner yearning for life and self-expression and with all this yet…

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