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
An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment. — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
I'm swanning round the world looking at the most fabulously interesting things. Such good fortune. — 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 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
Nothing in the natural world makes sense - except when seen in the light of evolution — 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
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 find it far more awesome, wonderful, that creation; our appearance in the world; should be the culmination, or at least one… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
Birds are the most accomplished aeronauts the world has ever seen. They fly high and low, at great speed, and very slowly.… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
In the West, that's what's happening. The birth rate has been dropping steadily and still is. But there is still a vast… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest… — 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
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
If we [humans] disappeared overnight, the world would probably be better off. — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
London has fine museums, the British Library is one of the greatest library institutions in the world... It's got everything you want,… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
Clearly we could devastate the world... as far as we know, the Earth is the only place in the universe where there… — 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
How could I look my grandchildren in the eye and say I knew what was happening to the world and did nothing. — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone in the… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
The World is full of wonders, but they become more Wonderful, not less Wonderful when Science looks at them. — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
The idea that the Lord had given us a present, that the world is a gift from God... well, the amount 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 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
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
Warm-bloodedness is one of the key factors that have enabled mammals to conquer the Earth, and to develop the most complex bodies… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
It's coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It's not just climate change; it's sheer space, places to… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
I remember when we were in the World Cup in Australia and I had to win the singles against Tony Payne, best… — 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
Human beings, because we're so clever, have removed every single one of those population limiting factors... So nothing controls our increase in… — 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
The process of making natural history films is to try to prevent the animal knowing you are there, so you get glimpses… — 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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