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Quote by David Attenborough
In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers di

In the old days… it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didnt have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didnt use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes. – David Attenborough

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People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly clearly. Periodic famines are due to too many people living on land that cant sustain them. – David Attenborough

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I often get letters, quite frequently, from people who say how they like the programmes a lot, but I never give credit to the almighty power that created nature. – David Attenborough

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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. – David Attenborough

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