All David Attenborough Quotes
- People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly clearly. Periodic famines are due… Africa
- Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on a… Actually Started
- The climate suits me, and London has the greatest serious music that you can hear any day of the week in the world - you… Any
- The most extraordinary thing about trying to piece together the missing links in the evolutionary story is that when you do find a missing link… Actually Increase
- To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can see. The Archbishop of Canterbury… African
- Very few species have survived unchanged. There's one called lingula, which is a little shellfish, a little brachiopod about the size of my fingernail, that… Accuse
- We really need to kick the carbon habit and stop making our energy from burning things. Climate change is also really important. You can wreck… Area
- You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural history programmes should… Convinced
- There's a small worm called Loa Loa Filariasis. This parasite can survive in one environment exclusively- namely, underneath the skin and inside the eyes of… Actually Live
- You've got to be fairly solemn [about the environment]. I mean the mere notion that there are three times as many people on Earth as… Accommodate
- How could I look my grandchildren in the eye and say I knew what was happening to the world and did nothing. Climate Change
- Can a growing human population still leave space for wildlife? Growing
- I have no doubt that the fundamental problem the planet faces is the enormous increase in the human population Doubt
- The human population can no longer be allowed to grow in the same old uncontrollable way. If we do not take charge of our population… Allowed
- Instead of controlling the environment for the benefit of the population, perhaps we should control the population to ensure the survival of our environment Benefit
- [W]hen we look at the graphs of rising ocean temperatures, rising carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and so on, we know that they are climbing… Accounted
- If we and the rest of the back-boned animals were to disappear overnight, the rest of the world would get on pretty well. But if… Animal
- We can now destroy or we can cherish-the choice is ours. Cherish
- The future of life on earth depends on our ability to take action. Many individuals are doing what they can, but real success can only… Ability
- Nothing in the natural world makes sense - except when seen in the light of evolution Evolution