73 ordspråk av David Attenborough
David Attenborough
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.
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If I can bicycle, I bicycle.
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If I do a series or tapes for the States and it's sponsored by somebody for the public broadcast system, I am committed to going on tour around various stations.
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If you don't pay attention to it... one doesn't want to be too high-flown about this... but it can lead to a great spiritual deprivation.
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It is curiosity, quite right-a divine curiosity. A characteristic of the gods is curiosity.
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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.
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It was regarded as a responsibility of the BBC to provide programs which have a broad spectrum of interest, and if there was a hole in that spectrum, then the BBC would fill it.
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It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species.
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It's about cherishing the woodland at the bottom of your garden or the stream that runs through it. It affects every aspect of life.
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It's lost on me. I can just about tell if it's got a jet engine or one of those funny things on the front!
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It's not just that we are dependent on the natural world for our food and for the very air we breathe-which is, of course, the case-and that the very richness of the natural world continues to provide us with all kinds of assistance.
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It's very easy to say everything is outrageous. But if you have an oil company that's setting up its own environmental department, for example, what do you do? Do you spit in its eye, or do you make sure that what they do actually has some substance?
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Just recently we were coming out of Niger and it so happened that there was a great pilgrimage so all the hotels were full. We ended up sleeping on the floor in tin huts with bed bugs and fleas.
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Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.
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My last trip was to the States, and on the way back I sat in the cockpit for take-off and landing. In a funny way, I think aircrew know that I've travelled a lot and therefore feel we are fellow professionals to some degree-which is nice, very complimentary.
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