Quote by David Attenborough
I like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the

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. – David Attenborough

Other quotes by David Attenborough

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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I can mention many moments that were unforgettable and revelatory. But the most single revelatory three minutes was the first time I put on scuba gear and dived on a coral reef. Its just the unbelievable fact that you can move in three dimensions. – David Attenborough

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Time
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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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Future
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We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it. – Jose Ortega y Gasset

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There are no extraordinary men… just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with. – William Halsey

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History

Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man. – Jean Genet

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History

This is my history; like all other histories, a narrative of misery. – Samuel Johnson

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History

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