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"The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between it and millions of other species of both animals and plants."
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"Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid."
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"It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians."
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"Research has shown that a barren environment is much more damaging to baby animals than it is to adult animals. It does not hurt the adult animals the same way it damages babies."
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"The Indians could not undertake any widespread cultivation of the plains not only because they lacked iron tools but also because they had no draft animals."
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"When it comes to wilderness animals we have to make an effort to preserve what areas we can that they can be themselves in. Its come to a point though, clearly, where some species have to be cared for by humans if they are not going to disappear altogether."
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"I couldn't watch Tom and Jerry. The cruelty was too much. I had all these strange images, of tiny animals, all mixed up."
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"If I could stomach the awful part of being a veterinarian, which involves sticking your hand up animals' behinds, I would be a vet."
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"The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery."
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"Because animals are property, we consider as "humane treatment" that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans."
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"Now that I know how supermarket meat is made, I regard eating it as a somewhat risky proposition. I know how those animals live and what's on their hides when they go to slaughter, so I don't buy industrial meat."
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"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."
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"I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours of arrival."
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"You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural history programmes should be for."
History
"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."
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"I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see a wild creature from dawn 'til dusk, unless it's a pigeon, which isn't really wild, which might come and settle near them."
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"People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure."
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"I think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home."
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"Crying wolf is a real danger."
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"Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English."
Time
"You know, it is a terrible thing to appear on television, because people think that you actually know what you're talking about."
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