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[W]hen we look at the graphs ...

[W]hen we look at the graphs of rising ocean temperatures, rising carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and so on, we know that they are climbing far more steeply than can be accounted for by the natural oscillation of the weather ... What people (must) do is to change their behavior and their attitudes ... If we do care about our grandchildren then we have to do something, and we have to demand that our governments do something.

David Attenborough 189 quotes

The World is full of wonders,...

The World is full of wonders, but they become more Wonderful, not less Wonderful when Science looks at them.

David Attenborough 189 quotes

The notion of ever more old p...

The notion of ever more old people needing ever more young people, who will in turn grow old and need even more young people, and so on ad infinitum, is an obvious ecological Ponzi scheme.

David Attenborough 189 quotes

Humanity is facing a very big...

Humanity is facing a very big, slow, long, drawn-out threat, and that is to do with the way the weather is changing and the size of the population.

David Attenborough 189 quotes

Clearly we could devastate th...

Clearly we could devastate the world... as far as we know, the Earth is the only place in the universe where there is life. Its continued survival now rests in our hands

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Do we really require so many ...

Do we really require so many gardening programmes, makeover programmes or celebrity chefs?

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You've got to be fairly solem...

You've got to be fairly solemn [about the environment]. I mean the mere notion that there are three times as many people on Earth as there were when I started making television. How can the Earth accommodate them? When people, including politicians, set their faces against looking at the consequences-it's just unbelievable that anyone could ignore it.

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It's like saying that two and...

It's like saying that two and two equals four, but if you wish to believe it, it could also be five ... Evolution is not a theory; it is a fact, every bit as much as the historical fact that William the Conqueror landed in 1066.

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I remember when we were in th...

I remember when we were in the World Cup in Australia and I had to win the singles against Tony Payne, best of seven legs, to win it. I was 2-0 down but ended up beating him I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours of arrival.

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You'll discover in countries ...

You'll discover in countries where women have control over their own bodies, where they have education, where they have birth control, where they have facilities and where they are literate, when those things happen, the birth rate falls.

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Nothing in the natural world ...

Nothing in the natural world makes sense - except when seen in the light of evolution

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They always mean beautiful th...

They always mean beautiful things like hummingbirds. I always reply by saying that I think of a little child in east Africa with a worm burrowing through his eyeball. The worm cannot live in any other way, except by burrowing through eyeballs. I find that hard to reconcile with the notion of a divine and benevolent creator.

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Sentimentalising is anathema,...

Sentimentalising is anathema, as far as I am concerned. It leads you into ethical problems about violence and killing and eating meat. The whole world becomes topsy-survy if you impose moralities that were evolved within human society on what a blowfly or what a parasite does... there are lots of emotions you can deduce from an animal's behaviour that are correct, but when you start saying it's feeling guilty or thinking or a loved one or mourning, you must be very careful of those feelings.

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Until humanity manages to sor...

Until humanity manages to sort itself out and get a co-ordinated view about the planet, it's going to get worse and worse.

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?Using his burgeoning intelli...

?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.

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Fundamentally not to waste en...

Fundamentally not to waste energy. If we were all to reduce our demands for energy, it would make an enormous amount of difference.

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Its about cherishing the wood...

Its 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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I suspect that happiness is n...

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

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Instead of controlling the en...

Instead of controlling the environment for the benefit of the population, perhaps we should control the population to ensure the survival of our environment

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Human beings, because we're s...

Human beings, because we're so clever, have removed every single one of those population limiting factors... So nothing controls our increase in numbers except our own wish. Since I first started making television programs, the population of the world has increased three times. That's an extraordinary notion. Can it increase four times? Can it increase five times? The Earth is a finite size. So a point will eventually come when we run out of food, when we run out of space and when we will have destroyed most of the natural world. So ought we to do something about it before that happens?

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