David Attenborough
Born
in London, The United Kingdom
May 08, 1926
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A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future
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published
2020
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2 editions
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Adventures of a Young Naturalist: The Zoo Quest Expeditions
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published
2017
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11 editions
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Life on Earth
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published
1979
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5 editions
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Life on Air: Memoirs of a Broadcaster
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published
2002
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39 editions
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Ocean: Earth’s Last Wilderness
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published
2025
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27 editions
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The Living Planet
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published
1984
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50 editions
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The Life of Birds
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published
1998
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28 editions
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Journeys to the Other Side of the World: Further Adventures of a Young Naturalist
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published
2018
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2 editions
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The Trials of Life
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published
1990
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43 editions
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The Life of Mammals
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published
2002
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8 editions
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“It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.”
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“I don’t know [why we're here]. People sometimes say to me, ‘Why don’t you admit that the humming bird, the butterfly, the Bird of Paradise are proof of the wonderful things produced by Creation?’ And I always say, well, when you say that, you’ve also got to think of a little boy sitting on a river bank, like here, in West Africa, that’s got a little worm, a living organism, in his eye and boring through the eyeball and is slowly turning him blind. The Creator God that you believe in, presumably, also made that little worm. Now I personally find that difficult to accommodate…”
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“No one will protect what they don't care about; and no one will care about what they have never experiened”
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