All David Attenborough Quotes
- People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure. Amazement
- An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment. Curiosity
- People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile. Animal
- 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… Coral
- I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored. Big
- There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of staying alive. 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. Bird
- 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,… All
- 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… Bangkok
- It is that range of biodiversity that we must care for - the whole thing - rather than just one or two stars. Biodiversity
- 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… Car
- The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book? Able
- Crying wolf is a real danger. Cry
- 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… Accessible
- I think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home. Element
- 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… Animal
- 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… Beauty
- Being in touch with the natural world is crucial. Crucial
- If I can bicycle, I bicycle. 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… All
- We keep putting on programmes about famine in Ethiopia; that's what's happening. Too many people there. They can't support themselves - and it's not an… Case
- Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English. English
- The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between it and millions… Animal
- It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species. Animal Rights
- All our environmental problems become easier to solve with fewer people and harder - and ultimately impossible to solve - with ever more people. All