73 ordspråk av David Attenborough
David Attenborough
Neither have I said we have got to do this because of some pharmaceutical advantage there may or may not be. The moral issue is that we should not impoverish this world.
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Oh, my capacity for guilt is enormous. I'm all the time thinking I'm not doing the things I should be doing, not doing enough of it, or I said I'd be vice-president of something or other, and what I have I done? Nothing.
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People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile.
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People knew that animals were nocturnal but they didn't really know what they did because they couldn't see it.
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People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.
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People say we have all got to join Europe for reasons which even the economists themselves aren't clear on-at the same time we're saying, well yes of course Scotland has got to be independent. And why don't we make Wales independent too? And the north of England.
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Right, we'd better have a bloody revolution.
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Since when has Finland been a rotten place to live in?
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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.
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The fundamental issue is the moral issue.
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The nighttime is a very active time.
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The only way Prescott is going to get through something to do with transport policy, is if the public think there are too many damn things on the road, and use the railways.
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The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between it and millions of other species of both animals and plants.
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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?
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The reverse side of the coin in having this extraordinary ability to go anywhere, is that no one anywhere is remote any more.
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