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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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 think the most alarming animals I have encountered are really poisonous snakes. — 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
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 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
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 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
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 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 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
![“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 Bird of Paradise are proof of the wonderful things produced by Creation?’ And I always say, well, when you say that, you’ve also got to think of a little boy sitting on a river…” quote by David Attenborough](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/713/david-attenborough-2396_atheism_i-don-t-know-why-we-re-here-people-somet_1567364.jpg)
![“I don't think whole populations are villainous, but Americans are just extraordinarily unaware of all kinds of things. If you live in the middle of that vast continent, with apparently everything your heart could wish for just because you were born there, then why worry? [...] If people lose…” quote by David Attenborough](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e02/david-attenborough-2396_all-kinds_i-don-t-think-whole-populations-are-vill_2489725.jpg)
![“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 and don’t understand. [...] There are always new things to find out if you go looking for them.” quote by David Attenborough](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b04/david-attenborough-2396_discover_we-only-know-a-tiny-proportion-about-the_112007.jpg)
