"I like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. The travel bit is what you have to do in order to go and look at animals."
-David Attenborough
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"Nature isn't positive in that way. It doesn't aim itself at you. It's not being unkind to you.“
-David Attenborough
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"Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel."
-David Attenborough
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"Dealing with global warming doesn't mean we have all got to suddenly stop breathing. Dealing with global warming means that we have to stop waste, and if you travel for no reason whatsoever, that is a waste."
-David Attenborough
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"I think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home."
-David Attenborough
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"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."
-David Attenborough
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"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."
-David Attenborough
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"I try to avoid saying anything positive about any presidential candidate for fear that if I actually like them then I will kill their campaign."
-Jack Abramoff
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"What none of the critics, positive or negative, grasped was that 'The Searchers' was a different kind of Western, something much darker and more disturbing than the usual fare."
-Glenn Frankel
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"I try to make the good days great and take something positive from the days I'm not feeling good - work on technique or something like that."
-Katie Ledecky
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"The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media."
-Garrett Graff
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"Women were freed from positive duties when they could not perform them, but not when they could."
-Henrietta Szold
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"Measurements of the specific ionization of both the positive and negative particles, by counting the number of droplets per unit length along the tracks, showed the great majority of both the positive and negative particles to possess unit electric charge."
-Carl D. Anderson
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