Quote by David Attenborough
Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel. - David Atte

Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel. – David Attenborough

Other quotes by David Attenborough

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

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History
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Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that gives them a sixth sense of what the creature is going to do, so they can be ready to follow. – David Attenborough

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History
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You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. Thats what natural history programmes should be for. – David Attenborough

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History
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Travel
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I fly economy. I do often fly first class, but I dont travel with a posse, or bodyguard, or an assistant. – Gene Simmons

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Travel

When you travel so many weeks a year, its always nice to have a home-cooked meal. – Maria Sharapova

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Travel

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are. – George Eliot

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Travel

Tourists dont know where theyve been, travelers dont know where theyre going. – Paul Theroux

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Travel

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Rest, rest, shall I have not all eternity to rest. – Antoine Arnauld

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Rest, Leisure

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference. – Richard Dawkins

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design

Words like freedom, justice, democracy are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are. It takes enormous and, above all, individual effort to arrive at the respect for other people that these words imply. – James Baldwin

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Humanity

Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Exaggeration