All David Attenborough Quotes
- 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
- Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel. Bbc
- I believe the Abominable Snowman may be real. I think there may be something in that. Abominable
- I don't approve of sunbathing, and it's bad for you. Appreciate
- I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours of arrival. Able
- I'm luckier than my grandfather, who didn't move more than five miles from the village in which he was born. Born
- I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how animals work. Animal
- I'm not an animal lover if that means you think things are nice if you can pat them, but I am intoxicated by animals. Animal
- I'm swanning round the world looking at the most fabulously interesting things. Such good fortune. Fabulously
- If I can make programmes when I'm 95, that would be fine. But I would think I'll have had enough by then. Fine
- London has fine museums, the British Library is one of the greatest library institutions in the world... It's got everything you want, really. British
- Natural history is not about producing fables. Fables
- The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates; none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason to be optimistic. Birth
- There is no question that climate change is happening; the only arguable point is what part humans are playing in it. Arguable
- You have to steer a course between not appalling people, but at the same time not misleading them. Appalling
- You know, it is a terrible thing to appear on television, because people think that you actually know what you're talking about. Actually Know