Attenborough in Paradise

Attenborough in Paradise
Genre	Documentary
Written by	David Attenborough
Narrated by	David Attenborough
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language(s)	English
Distributor	BBC Worldwide
Release
Original release	1996
Chronology
Preceded by	—
Followed by	A Blank on the Map
Related shows	Attenborough in Paradise and Other Personal Voyages

Attenborough in Paradise is a BBC television documentary written and presented by David Attenborough. It was first transmitted in 1996 and is part of the Attenborough in Paradise and Other Personal Voyages collection of seven documentaries.

In this program Attenborough fulfills a childhood ambition, developed after reading a book as a nine-year-old, to see the greater bird-of-paradise in display; and records the spectacular birdlife of the New Guinea forest, in particular the various birds-of-paradise.

Quotes

In the final piece to camera for this documentary David Attenborough introduces quotes from the 1869 book The Malay Archipelago by Alfred Russel Wallace.

53 min 15 sec

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Wallace's emotions on discovering such marvels must surely be echoed by all of us who follow him. This is what he wrote:

"I thought of the long ages of the past during which the successive generations of these things of beauty had run their course. Year by year being born and living and dying amid these dark gloomy woods with no intelligent eye to gaze upon their loveliness, to all appearances such a wanton waste of beauty. It seems sad that on the one hand such exquisite creatures should live out their lives and exhibit their charms only in these wild inhospitable regions. This consideration must surely tell us that all living things were not made for man, many of them have no relation to him, their happiness and enjoyment's, their loves and hates, their struggles for existence, their vigorous life and early death, would seem to be immediately related to their own well-being and perpetuation alone"

Indeed so.

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References

From DVD

External links

Attenborough in Paradise at the Internet Movie Database

David Attenborough's television and radio series

The Life series	Life on Earth (1979) The Living Planet (1984) The Trials of Life (1990) Life in the Freezer (1993) The Private Life of Plants (1995) The Life of Birds (1998) The Life of Mammals (2002) Life in the Undergrowth (2005) Life in Cold Blood (2008)

Other TV series	Zoo Quest (1954–63) The People of Paradise (1960) The Miracle of Bali (1969) The Tribal Eye (1975) Wildlife on One (1977) The First Eden (1987) Lost Worlds, Vanished Lives (1989) BBC Wildlife Specials (1995–2008) State of the Planet (2000) The Blue Planet (2001) Planet Earth (2006) Are We Changing Planet Earth? (2006) Nature's Great Events (2009) Life (2009) First Life (2010) Madagascar (2011) Frozen Planet (2011) Attenborough: 60 Years in the Wild (2012) Africa (2013) David Attenborough's Natural Curiosities (episodes) (2013–) David Attenborough's Rise of Animals: Triumph of the Vertebrates (2013) Life Story (2014) The Hunt (2015) Great Barrier Reef (2015)

Other TV programmes	Christmas Lecture: The Language of Animals (1973) Horizon special: How Many People Can Live on Planet Earth? (2009) Horizon: The Death of the Oceans? (2010) other programmes as listed in filmography

3D programmes and films	Flying Monsters 3D (2010) The Bachelor King 3D (2011) Kingdom of Plants 3D (2012) Galapagos 3D (2013) Micro Monsters 3D (2013) David Attenborough's Natural History Museum Alive (2014) David Attenborough's Conquest of the Skies 3D (2014)

DVD collections	Great Wildlife Moments (2003) Attenborough in Paradise (2005) The Life Collection (2005) Life on Land (2008)

Radio	Scars of Evolution (2005) David Attenborough's Life Stories (2009–11) Tweet of the Day (2013–14)

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