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I'm absolutely strict about it. When I land, I put my watch right, and I don't care what I feel like, I will go to bed at half past eleven. If that means going to bed early or late, that's what I live by. As soon as you get there, live by that time.


David Attenborough


#absolutely #bed #care #early #eleven

The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates; none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason to be optimistic.


David Attenborough


#climate #economic #economic situation #give #give me

If I were beginning my career today, I don't think I would take the same direction. Television is at a crossroads at the moment. And although I am not up to date technologically, I suspect that somewhere out there people are conveying things about natural history by means other than television, and I think if I were beginning today, I'd be there.


David Attenborough


#although #am #beginning #career #conveying

In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn't use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes.


David Attenborough


#cardinal #days #fact #factual #history

I never for a day gave up listening to the songs of our birds, or watching their peculiar habits, or delineating them in the best way I could.


John James Audubon


#best way #birds #could #day #gave

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


#excitement #greatest #intellectual #interest #life

It was regarded as a responsibility of the BBC to provide programs which have a broad spectrum of interest, and if there was a hole in that spectrum, then the BBC would fill it.


David Attenborough


#broad #fill #hole #interest #programs

People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.


David Attenborough


#amazement #beautiful #feel #important #must

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


#films #get #glimpses #history #human world

Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English.


David Attenborough


#feel #good #good time #guilty #having






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