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"The Demands of the Egg"
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You might think that a hornbill would have the most powerful excavation tool of all, but in fact its huge beak is a relatively delicate structure and no use at all as a chisel.

— David Attenborough

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "You might think that a hornbill would have the most powerful excavation tool of all, but in fact its huge beak is a relatively delicate structure and no use at all as a chisel." in the context of ""The Demands of the Egg"" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

Source: Wikiquote: "David Attenborough" (Quotes, The Life of Birds (1998)) The 'What it means' explanation text was generated by Google Gemini Flash (accessed January 18, 2026). https://gemini.google.com/app

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David Attenborough

About David Attenborough

Sir David Frederick Attenborough OM CH CVO CBE FRS (born 8 May 1926) is a British broadcaster and writer specialising in natural history who has mainly worked for the BBC since the early 1950s.