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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
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It is that range of biodiversity that we must care for - the whole thing - rather than just one or two stars.
David Attenborough
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Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English.
David Attenborough
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I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.
David Attenborough
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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.
David Attenborough
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I'm absolutely strict about it. When I land, I put my watch right, and I don't care what I feel like, I will go to bed at half past eleven. If that means going to bed early or late, that's what I live by. As soon as you get there, live by that time.
David Attenborough
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I like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. The travel bit is what you have to do in order to go and look at animals.
David Attenborough
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I've been to Nepal, but I'd like to go to Tibet. It must be a wonderful place to go. I don't think there's anything there, but it would be a nice place to visit.
David Attenborough
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It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.
David Attenborough
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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 from dawn 'til dusk, unless it's a pigeon, which isn't really wild, which might come and settle near them.
David Attenborough
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I don't approve of sunbathing, and it's bad for you.
David Attenborough
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Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel.
David Attenborough
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I think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home.
David Attenborough
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