What humans do over the next 50 years will determine the fate of all life on the planet. — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
I have no doubt that the fundamental problem the planet faces is the enormous increase in the human population — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
There is no question that climate change is happening; the only arguable point is what part humans are playing in it. — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
If we [humans] disappeared overnight, the world would probably be better off. — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
The human population can no longer be allowed to grow in the same old uncontrollable way. If we do not take charge… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
The nature of human beings is that they'd far rather face the disaster that is happening tonight than the one that is… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
There's a small worm called Loa Loa Filariasis. This parasite can survive in one environment exclusively- namely, underneath the skin and inside… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
At a time when it's possible for thirty people to stand on the top of Everest in one day, Antarctica still remains… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
Children start off reading in books about lions and giraffes and so on, but they also-if theyre lucky enough and have reasonable… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
Very few species have survived unchanged. There's one called lingula, which is a little shellfish, a little brachiopod about the size of… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
Human beings, because we're so clever, have removed every single one of those population limiting factors... So nothing controls our increase in… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
The only acceptable way to solve ecological problems is if you can persuade people to have fewer children. In the Victorian times,… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
Sentimentalising is anathema, as far as I am concerned. It leads you into ethical problems about violence and killing and eating meat.… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored. — David Attenborough Copy Share
I'm against this huge globalisation on the basis of economic advantage. — David Attenborough Copy Share
Bringing nature into the classroom can kindle a fascination and passion for the diversity of life on earth and can motivate a sense of… — David Attenborough Copy Share
I don't like rats, but there's not much else I don't like. The problem with rats is they have no fear of human beings,… — David Attenborough Copy Share
“We only know a tiny proportion about the complexity of the natural world. Wherever you look, there are still things we don’t know about… — David Attenborough Copy Share
At a time when it's possible for thirty people to stand on the top of Everest in one day, Antarctica still remains a remote,… — David Attenborough Copy Share
I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours of arrival. — David Attenborough Copy Share
Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on… — David Attenborough Copy Share
It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us about the… — David Attenborough Copy Share
This last chapter .. may have given the impression that somehow man is the ultimate triumph of evolution, that all these millions of years… — David Attenborough Copy Share
To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can see. The Archbishop of… — David Attenborough Copy Share
In the Baboon community, it is not how strong you are that is important, but who you know that counts — David Attenborough Copy Share
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