“I think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home.”
— David Attenborough
Author: David Attenborough
Category: travel
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All we can hope for is that
“All we can hope for is that the thing is going to slowly and imperceptibly shift. All I can say is that 50 years ago there were no such thing as environmental policies.”
— David Attenborough
Author: David Attenborough
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Before the BBC, I joined the Navy
“Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel.”
— David Attenborough
Author: David Attenborough
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I often get letters, quite frequently, from
“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.”
— David Attenborough
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People must feel that the natural world
“People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.”
— David Attenborough
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Category: amazing
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The process of making natural history films
“The process of making natural history films is to try to prevent the animal knowing you are there, so you get glimpses of a non-human world, and that is a transporting thing.”
— David Attenborough
Author: David Attenborough
Category: history
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People must feel that the natural world
“People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.”
— David Attenborough
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Category: amazing
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I often get letters, quite frequently, from
“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.”
— David Attenborough
Author: David Attenborough
Category: nature
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It seems to me that the natural
“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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Category: beauty
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The climate, the economic situation, rising birth
“The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates; none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason to be optimistic.”
— David Attenborough
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Television of course actually started in Britain
“Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on a license which is not the same as a government grant.”
— David Attenborough
Author: David Attenborough
Category: government
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