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David Attenborough Quotes

«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.»
«Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel.»
«I mean, one is living an amazingly privileged life. It's only been the last 20 or so years that one could have possibly gone to all the places you and I go to.»
«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.»
«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.»
«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.»
«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.»
«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.»
«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.»
«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.»

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