Apart from anything else, I am designed by evolution, like we all are: if we see a little thing like that, big… — 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
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'm no longer sceptical. I no longer have any doubt at all. I think climate change is the major challenge facing the… — 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
Anyone who thinks that you can have infinite growth on a planet with finite resources is either a madman or an economist. — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
They always mean beautiful things like hummingbirds. I always reply by saying that I think of a little child in east Africa… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
The climate suits me, and London has the greatest serious music that you can hear any day of the week in the… — 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 we are going to become extinct. We're very clever and extremely resourceful - and we will find ways of… — 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
I think the most alarming animals I have encountered are really poisonous snakes. — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
I'm not an animal lover if that means you think things are nice if you can pat them, but I am intoxicated… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
If I can make programmes when I'm 95, that would be fine. But I would think I'll have had enough by then. — 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
I believe the Abominable Snowman may be real. I think there may be something in that. — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know them. And… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
I am an ardent recycler. I would like to think that it works. I don't know whether it does or not. — 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
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