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Animal Quotes by David Attenborough
- People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile.
- There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of staying alive.
- 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…
- 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…
- I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how animals work.
- 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.
- If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in life is to pass on…
- Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren't aware that you are not treating…
- 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…
- I'm not over-fond of animals. I am merely astounded by them.
- I like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. The travel bit is what you have to do in…
- The more you go on, the less you need people standing between you and the animal and the camera waving their arms about.
- The process of making natural history films is to try to prevent the animal knowing you are there, so you get glimpses of a non-human…
More Animal Quotes
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
- If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men… — Francis of Assisi
- People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile. — 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
- Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know them. And… — David Attenborough
- The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between… — David Attenborough
- I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how animals work. — David Attenborough
- I'm not an animal lover if that means you think things are nice if you can pat them, but I am intoxicated… — David Attenborough
- If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in life is… — David Attenborough
- Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren't aware that you… — David Attenborough