David Attenborough

I'm not over fond of animals

— David Attenborough

Crying wolf is a real danger.

— David Attenborough

If I can bicycle, I bicycle.

— David Attenborough

We are a plague on the Earth.

— David Attenborough

I'm not in politics.

— David Attenborough

One in eight plant species face extinction.

— David Attenborough

Being in touch with the natural world is crucial.

— David Attenborough

It's all about animals and their habitats. Not my voice

— David Attenborough

We can now destroy or we can cherish-the choice is ours.

— David Attenborough

Now, I find that very difficult to reconcile with notions about a merciful God.

— David Attenborough

Since when has Finland been a rotten place to live in?

— David Attenborough

I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.

— David Attenborough

The fundamental issue is the moral issue.

— David Attenborough

Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and…

— David Attenborough

Do we really require so many gardening programmes, makeover programmes or celebrity chefs?

— David Attenborough

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

If we were all to reduce our demands for energy, it would make an enormous amount of difference.

— David Attenborough

The more you go on, the less you need people standing between you and the animal and the camera waving their arms…

— David Attenborough

There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of…

— David Attenborough

Anyone who thinks that you can have infinite growth on a planet with finite resources is either a madman or an economist.

— David Attenborough

The World is full of wonders, but they become more Wonderful, not less Wonderful when Science looks at them.

— David Attenborough

Dealing with global warming doesn't mean we have all got to suddenly stop breathing. Dealing with global warming means that we have…

— David Attenborough

It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us…

— David Attenborough

It's like saying that two and two equals four, but if you wish to believe it, it could also be five ...…

— David Attenborough

I would love to go and see the Himalayan Mountain Kingdoms. There are very few left now. I would loved to have…

— David Attenborough

Bringing nature into the classroom can kindle a fascination and passion for the diversity of life on earth and can motivate a…

— David Attenborough

Reptiles and amphibians are sometimes thought of as primitive, dull and dimwitted. In fact, of course, they can be lethally fast, spectacularly…

— David Attenborough

In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes,…

— David Attenborough

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

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

The only acceptable way to solve ecological problems is if you can persuade people to have fewer children. In the Victorian times,…

— David Attenborough

Birds were flying from continent to continent long before we were. They reached the coldest place on Earth, Antarctica, long before we…

— David Attenborough

Sentimentalising is anathema, as far as I am concerned. It leads you into ethical problems about violence and killing and eating meat.…

— David Attenborough

They always mean beautiful things like hummingbirds. I always reply by saying that I think of a little child in east Africa…

— David Attenborough

This last chapter .. may have given the impression that somehow man is the ultimate triumph of evolution, that all these millions…

— David Attenborough

[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

You've got to be fairly solemn [about the environment]. I mean the mere notion that there are three times as many people…

— David Attenborough

I don't approve of sunbathing, and it's bad for you.

— David Attenborough

No, not a feminist. I'm a humanist. I'm neither one side nor the other.

— David Attenborough

I'm against this huge globalisation on the basis of economic advantage.

— David Attenborough