You have to steer a course between not appalling people, but at the same time not misleading them. — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
That people will object very much to seeing a predator killing its prey, and yet, in the news, will accept showing shots… — 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
You'll find people where their conditions aren't changing in any way, its rather rare for them to be happy. — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
All our environmental problems become easier to solve with fewer people and harder - and ultimately impossible to solve - with ever… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
The notion of ever more old people needing ever more young people, who will in turn grow old and need even more… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
You know, it is a terrible thing to appear on television, because people think that you actually know what you're talking about. — 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
I'd like to see the giant squid. Nobody has ever seen one. I could tell you people who have spent thousands and… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
We are not overpopulated in an absolute sense; we've got the technology for 10 billion, probably 15 billion people, to live on… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
We keep putting on programmes about famine in Ethiopia; that's what's happening. Too many people there. They can't support themselves - and… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
If I were beginning my career today, I don't think I would take the same direction. Television is at a crossroads at… — 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
You've got to be fairly solemn [about the environment]. I mean the mere notion that there are three times as many people… — 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
I don’t know [why we're here]. People sometimes say to me, ‘Why don’t you admit that the humming bird, the butterfly, the… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
I don't think whole populations are villainous, but Americans are just extraordinarily unaware of all kinds of things. If you live in… — 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
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
[W]hen we look at the graphs of rising ocean temperatures, rising carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and so on, we know that… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile. — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
The more you go on, the less you need people standing between you and the animal and the camera waving their arms… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
Terrorism is an immediate problem that people are very concerned about, and I am as concerned about that as anyone else. But… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
I would love to see a giant squid. Very few people have seen them. And only about half a dozen people have… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
It is vital that there is a narrator figure whom people believe. That's why I never do commercials. If I started saying… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly clearly. Periodic… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
I've never actually met one in the wild, but I have seen a king cobra. They go towards people, they rear up… — 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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