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"An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment."
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"Why?' is always the most difficult question to answer. You know where you are when someone asks you 'What's the time?' or 'When was the battle of 1066?' or 'How do these seatbelts work that go tight when you slam the brakes on, Daddy?' The answers are easy and are, respectively, 'Seven-thirty in the evening,' 'Ten-fifteen in the morning,' and 'Don't ask stupid questions."
"I believe if you're not a very curious person by nature, its unlikely you'll become rich at all or make it to the top. Smart is curious."
"There is no key to open the heart of another - except curiosity."
"Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make."
"Being curious is the most important part of being a journalist. It might be the most important part of being anything."
"The courage to ask question is the willingness to know."
"I wonder. Of course maybe that isn't what they figure to do. Maybe they aren't going to do any such thing. But it's natural that's what they would do and I heard that word."
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"Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on a license which is not the same as a government grant."
"Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics."
"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."
"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."
"All we can hope for is that the thing is going to slowly and imperceptibly shift. All I can say is that 50 years ago there were no such thing as environmental policies."
"People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure."
"I've been to Nepal, but I'd like to go to Tibet. It must be a wonderful place to go. I don't think there's anything there, but it would be a nice place to visit."
"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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