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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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"An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment."
"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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"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 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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