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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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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

"He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves."

"People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy."

"Prune - prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually."

"Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have."
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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."

"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."

"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."

"I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours of arrival."

"People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile."

"The whole of science, and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man, is trying to come to terms with the relationship between yourself and the natural world. Why are you here, and how do you fit in, and what's it all about."

"It is that range of biodiversity that we must care for - the whole thing - rather than just one or two stars."

"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."

"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."
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