- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone in the world, as universal as a bird?
- Birds
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- Nov 07, 2020
Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know them. And yet they inhabit a world which is really rather mysterious.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I am interested in with birds, just as I am with spiders or monkeys, is what they do and why they do it.
- Extraordinarily
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that gives them a sixth sense of what the creature is going to do, so they can be ready to follow.
- Climate Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no question that climate change is happening; the only arguable point is what part humans are playing in it.
- Balance
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would be absolutely astounded if population growth and industrialisation and all the stuff we are pumping into the atmosphere hadn't changed the climatic balance. Of course it has. There is no valid argument for denial.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates; none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason to be optimistic.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 can't sustain them.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how animals work.
- Cry
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can cry about death and very properly so, your own as well as anybody else's. But it's inevitable, so you'd better grapple with it and cope and be aware that not only is it inevitable, but it has always been inevitable, if you see what I mean.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
If my grandchildren were to look at me and say, 'You were aware species were disappearing and you did nothing, you said nothing', that I think is culpable. I don't know how much more they expect me to be doing, I'd better ask them.
- Nov 07, 2020
You have to steer a course between not appalling people, but at the same time not misleading them.
- Fables
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- Nov 07, 2020
Natural history is not about producing fables.
- Single
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- Nov 07, 2020
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. It's just the unbelievable fact that you can move in three dimensions.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020