David Attenborough Quotes

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• People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.
• An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment.
• People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile.
• I can mention many moments that were unforgettable and revelatory. But the most single revelatory three minutes was the first time I put on scuba…
• I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.
• There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of staying alive.
• What I am interested in with birds, just as I am with spiders or monkeys, is what they do and why they do it.
• Dealing with global warming doesn't mean we have all got to suddenly stop breathing. Dealing with global warming means that we have to stop waste,…
• Getting to places like Bangkok or Singapore was a hell of a sweat. But when you got there it was the back of beyond. It…
• It is that range of biodiversity that we must care for - the whole thing - rather than just one or two stars.
• I don't run a car, have never run a car. I could say that this is because I have this extremely tender environmentalist conscience, but…
• The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?
• Crying wolf is a real danger.
• Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone in the world, as universal…
• I think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home.
• Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know them. And yet they inhabit…
• It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual…
• Being in touch with the natural world is crucial.
• If I can bicycle, I bicycle.
• As far as I'm concerned, if there is a supreme being then He chose organic evolution as a way of bringing into existence the natural…

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