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
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
Fundamentally not to waste energy. If we were all to reduce our demands for energy, it would make an enormous amount of… — 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
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
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
[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
Climate change will affect the whole of humanity, while terrorist attacks will only affect a small section of humanity. Of course, you… — 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
It's like saying that two and two equals four, but if you wish to believe it, it could also be five ...… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
If we were all to reduce our demands for energy, it would make an enormous amount of difference. — 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
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
Birds were flying from continent to continent long before we were. They reached the coldest place on Earth, Antarctica, long before we… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
Climate change will affect the whole of humanity, while terrorist attacks will only affect a small section of humanity. Of course, you… — 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 Image
I'm against this huge globalisation on the basis of economic advantage. — 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 sense of… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
I suspect that happiness is not a state but rather a transition. — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 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 about the… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image