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#1

“We need cats to need us. It unnerves us that they do not. However, if they do not need us, they nonetheless seem to love us.”
― Jeffery Masson

tags: cats, humans, jeffery, masson

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#2

“Perhaps one central reason for loving dogs is that they take us away from this obsession with ourselves. When our thoughts start to go in circles, and we seem unable to break away, wondering what horrible event the future holds for us, the dog opens a window into the delight of the moment.”
― Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, Dogs Never Lie About Love: Reflections on the Emotional World of Dogs

tags: dogs, love

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#3

“Young people: They care. They know that this is the world that they're going to grow up in, that they're going to spend the rest of their lives in. But, I think it's more idealistic than that. They actually believe that humanity, human species, has no right to destroy and despoil regardless.”
― David Attenborough

tags: future, young-people

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#4

“To restore stability to our planet, therefore, we must restore its biodiversity, the very thing we have removed. It is the only way out of this crisis that we ourselves have created. We must rewild the world!”
― David Attenborough

tags: biodiversity, crisis, environment, hope, nature, planet

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#5

“Everything is set for us to win this future. We have a plan. We know what to do. There is a path to sustainability. It is a path that could lead to a better future for all life on Earth. We must let our politicians and business leaders know that we understand this, that this vision for the future is not just something we need, it is something, above all, that we want.”
― David Attenborough, A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future

tags: conservationism, future, sustainability

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#6

“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…”
― David Attenborough

tags: atheism, birds, christian, christianity, creation, god, nature, religion, worm

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#7

“The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?”
― David Attenborough

tags: nonfiction, outdoors-nature

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#8

“If we were to disappear overnight, the rest of the world would get on pretty well. But if they were to disappear, the land’s ecosystems would collapse.”
― David Attenborough, Life in the Undergrowth

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#9

“There is a LIGHT in this world. A healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter. We sometime lose sight of this force when there is suffering, and too much pain. Then suddenly, the spirit will emerge through the lives of ordinary people who hear a call and answer in extraordinary ways.”
― Richard Attenborough

tags: misattributed-to-mother-teresa, movie

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#10

“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.”
― David Attenborough

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#11

“I don't think whole populations are villainous, but Americans are just extraordinarily unaware of all kinds of things. If you live in the middle of that vast continent, with apparently everything your heart could wish for just because you were born there, then why worry? [...] If people lose knowledge, sympathy and understanding of the natural world, they're going to mistreat it and will not ask their politicians to care for it.”
― David Attenborough

tags: environmentalism, nature, science

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#12

“The truth is: the natural world is changing. And we are totally dependent on that world. It provides our food, water and air. It is the most precious thing we have and we need to defend it.”
― Sir David Attenborough

tags: conservation, environment, nature, science

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#13

“No one will protect what they don't care about; and no one will care about what they have never experiened”
― David Attenborough

tags: environmentalism, experience, science

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#14

“‎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.”
― David Attenborough

tags: mankind, nature, population, science, survival

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#15

“The fact is that no species has ever had such wholesale control over everything on earth, living or dead, as we now have. That lays upon us, whether we like it or not, an awesome responsibility. In our hands now lies not only our own future, but that of all other living creatures with whom we share the earth.”
― David Attenborough, Life on Earth

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#16

“We only know a tiny proportion about the complexity of the natural world. Wherever you look, there are still things we don’t know about and don’t understand. [...] There are always new things to find out if you go looking for them.”
― David Attenborough

tags: discover, discovered, discoveries, discovering, discovering-life, discovery, discovery-quotes, expansion, expansion-of-consciousness, expansion-of-thought, experience, experienced, exploration, explore, explored, explorer, exploring, facts, find-out, finding-out-the-truth, finding-your-way, growth, growth-ideology, growth-mindset, know, knowledge, learn, learning, learning-the-truth, life, life-experience, more-than-this, more-than-you-know, more-to-life, new-things, novelty, pioneer, pioneer-of-the-future, pioneer-spirit, pioneering, truth, understanding, understanding-life, understanding-oneself, understanding-oneself-and-others, understanding-others, understanding-people, understanding-yourself, undiscovered, what-i-know, what-we-know, wisdom

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#17

“David Attenborough has said that Bali is the most beautiful place in the world, but he must have been there longer than we were, and seen different bits, because most of what we saw in the couple of days we were there sorting out our travel arrangements was awful. It was just the tourist area, i.e., that part of Bali which has been made almost exactly the same as everywhere else in the world for the sake of people who have come all this way to see Bali.”
― Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See

tags: humor, tourism, tourists, travel

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#18

“I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.”
― David Attenborough

tags: discovery, exploration, nature, world

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#19

“This last chapter .. may have given the impression that somehow man is the ultimate triumph of evolution, that all these millions of years of development have had no purpose other than to put him on earth. There is no scientific evidence whatever to support such a view and no reason to suppose that our stay here will be any more permanent than that of the dinosaur.”
― David Attenborough, Life on Earth

tags: natural-history

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#20

“What about volcanoes?"
"What about them?"
"All that lava comes up from center of the earth where it is all hot. I saw a program, it had David Attenborough, so it's true.”
― Neil Gaiman, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

tags: adam, humor, the-them

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#21

“I find it far more awesome, wonderful, that creation; our appearance in the world; should be the culmination, or at least one of the latest products of 3,000 Million years of organic evolution, than a kind of country trick, taking a rib out of a man's side in a trance.”
― David Attenborough

tags: atheism, atheist, biology, evolution, fairy-tales, magic, myth, science, truth

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#22

“We moved from being a part of nature to being apart from nature.”
― David Attenborough, A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future

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#23

“We are at a unique stage in our history. Never before have we had such an awareness of what we are doing to the planet, and never before have we had the power to do something about that. Surely we all have a responsibility to care for our Blue Planet. The future of humanity and indeed, all life on earth, now depends on us.”
― David Attenborough

tags: awareness, blu-planet, conservation, humanity, life, nature, planet

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#24

“Our first point of discussion is the hunt. (...) My idea is to start the film with an image of the vixen locked out of her lair which has been plugged up. Her terror as she's pursued across the country. This is a big deal. It means training a fox from birth or dressing up a dog to look like a fox. Or hiring David Attenbrorough, who probably knows a few foxes well enough to ask a favour.”
― Emma Thompson, The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film

tags: connections, david-attenborough, filming, foxes, humor, hunting, movies

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#25

“I saw a program. It had David Attenborough, so it’s true.”
― Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

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#26

“We ourselves (one single species) have taken over vast tracts of the inhabitable surface of the planet. Surely, we should allow those other creatures we share the planet with to retain some part of their ancient heritage.”
― David Attenborough

tags: david-attenborough, dynasties, earth, environment

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#27

“We live our comfortable lives in the shadow of a disaster of our own making. That disaster is being brought about by the very things that allow us to live our comfortable lives.”
― David Attenborough, A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future

tags: biology, climate-change, science

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#28

“We romanticize the past with our period dramas and glossy film adaptations. A bit like we do with nature. Nature is violent, unpredictable and unforgiving. Eat or be eaten. That's nature. However much Attenborough or Coldplay you wrap it up in.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Hiding Place

tags: coldplay, cynical, nature

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#29

“Now, over half of us live in an urban environment. My home, too, is here in the city of London. Looking down on this great metropolis, the ingenuity with which we continue to reshape the surface of our planet is very striking. It’s also very sobering, and reminds me of just how easy it is for us to lose our connection with the natural world.
Yet it’s on this connection that the future of both humanity and the natural world will depend. And surely, it is our responsibility to do everything within our power to create a planet that provides a home not just for us, but for all life on Earth.”
― David Attenborough

tags: conservation, environment, nature, planet-earth, world

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#30

“We have a finite environment—the planet. Anyone who thinks that you can have infinite growth in a finite environment is either a madman or an economist.”
― David Attenborough

tags: ecology, economy, environment, overpopulation

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