Nature isn't positive in that way. It doesn't aim itself at you. It's not being unkind to you. — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
Nothing in the natural world makes sense - except when seen in the light of evolution — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
I like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. The travel bit is what you have… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure. — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
I often get letters, quite frequently, from people who say how they like the programmes a lot, but I never give credit… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment. — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
Bringing nature into the classroom can kindle a fascination and passion for the diversity of life on earth and can motivate a… — 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
If we and the rest of the back-boned animals were to disappear overnight, the rest of the world would get on pretty… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
The whole of science, and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man, is trying to… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
Using his burgeoning intelligence, this most successful of all mammals has exploited the environment to produce food for an ever increasing population.… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
“We only know a tiny proportion about the complexity of the natural world. Wherever you look, there are still things we don’t… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
The fact is that no species has ever had such wholesale control over everything on earth, living or dead, as we now… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
This last chapter .. may have given the impression that somehow man is the ultimate triumph of evolution, that all these millions… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
The future of life on earth depends on our ability to take action. Many individuals are doing what they can, but real… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
Opponents say natural selection is not a theory supported by observation or experiment; that it is not based on fact; and that… — 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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