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David Attenborough

Sir David Frederick Attenborough OM CH CVO CBE FRS FLS FZS FSA FRSGS (UK: /ˈætənbərə/; born 8 May 1926) is an English broadcaster and naturalist. He is best known for writing and presenting, in conjunction with the BBC Natural History Unit, the nine natural history documentary series that form the Life collection, which form a comprehensive survey of animal and plant life on Earth. He is a former senior manager at the BBC, having served as controller of BBC Two and director of programming for BBC Television in the 1960s and 1970s. He is the only person to have won BAFTAs for programmes in each of black and white, colour, HD, 3D and 4K.

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‎Using his burgeoning intelligence, this most successful of all mammals has exploited the environment to produce food for an ever increasing population. Instead of controlling the environment for the benefit of the population, perhaps it's time we controlled the population to allow the survival of the environment.

Environment, Mammals, Produce, Successful, Survival, Using

I would love to go and see the Himalayan Mountain Kingdoms. There are very few left now. I would loved to have gone to Tibet and Nepal. And there are still parts of central Asia that are utterly unexplored.

Central, Gone, Kingdoms, Mountain, Nepal, Tibet

The idea that the Lord had given us a present, that the world is a gift from God. . . well, the amount of stuff, back then, that the Lord was giving away was limited. We do not have dominion.

Dominion, Giving, God, Ideas, Limited

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

State, States, Suspect, Suspects, Transition

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 sixth sense of what the creature is going to do, so they can be ready to follow.

Able, Creature, Giving, People, Ready, Sixth

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

Advantage, Against, Bases, Basis, Economic

All the modern devices we have enable us to investigate things and have enabled us to do better.

Devices, Enable, Enabled, Investigate, Modern, Things

People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.

Amazement, Beautiful, Important, People

I don't know [why we're here]. People sometimes say to me, 'Why don't you admit that the humming bird, the butterfly, the Bird of Paradise are proof of the wonderful things produced by Creation?' And I always say, well, when you say that, you've also got to think of a little boy sitting on a river bank, like here, in West Africa, that's got a little worm, a living organism, in his eye and boring through the eyeball and is slowly turning him blind. The Creator God that you believe in, presumably, also made that little worm. Now I personally find that difficult to accommodate.

Atheist, Believe, Blind, Butterfly, Sitting, West

I often get letters, quite frequently, from people who say how they like the programmes a lot, but I never give credit to the almighty power that created nature.

Credit, Giving, Letters, People, Quite, Say

Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone in the world, as universal as a bird?

Accessible, Bird, Birds, Ears, Eye, Eyes

You know, it is a terrible thing to appear on television, because people think that you actually know what you're talking about.

Appear, Know, People, Talking, Television, Thinking

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

Bird, Birds, Interested, Monkeys, Spiders

Reptiles and amphibians are sometimes thought of as primitive, dull and dimwitted. In fact, of course, they can be lethally fast, spectacularly beautiful, surprisingly affectionate and very sophisticated.

Beautiful, Reptiles, Dull, Affectionate, Fact, Spectacularly

People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile.

Animal, Animals, Care, People, Thinking

Anyone who thinks that you can have infinite growth on a planet with finite resources is either a madman or an economist.

Growth, Infinite, Mad, Planet, Thinking, Thinks

Anyone who believes in indefinite growth on a physically finite planet is either mad or an economist

Believe, Economist, Growth, Mad, Physically

I had a huge advantage when I started 50 years ago - my job was secure. I didn't have to promote myself. These days there's far more pressure to make a mark, so the temptation is to make adventure television or personality shows. I hope the more didactic approach won't be lost.

Adventure, Jobs, Shows, Television, Years

It's coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It's not just climate change; it's sheer space, places to grow food for this enormous horde. Either we limit our population growth or the natural world will do it for us, and the natural world is doing it for us right now.

Home, Space, Years, Change, Coming

Can a growing human population still leave space for wildlife?

Growing, Leave, Population, Space, Wildlife

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