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
Humanity is facing a very big, slow, long, drawn-out threat, and that is to do with the way the weather is changing… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
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
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 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
As far as I'm concerned, if there is a supreme being then He chose organic evolution as a way of bringing into… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between… — 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
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
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