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World Quotes by David Attenborough
- 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.
- 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.
- 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…
- 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.
- 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…
- I'm swanning round the world looking at the most fabulously interesting things. Such good fortune.
- London has fine museums, the British Library is one of the greatest library institutions in the world... It's got everything you want, really.
- The whole of science, and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man, is trying to come to terms…
- It's coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It's not just climate change; it's sheer space, places to grow food for…
- The climate suits me, and London has the greatest serious music that you can hear any day of the week in the world - you…
- How could I look my grandchildren in the eye and say I knew what was happening to the world and did nothing.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Nothing in the natural world makes sense - except when seen in the light of evolution
- I find it far more awesome, wonderful, that creation; our appearance in the world; should be the culmination, or at least one of the latest…
- The idea that the Lord had given us a present, that the world is a gift from God... well, the amount of stuff, back then,…
- I don't think whole populations are villainous, but Americans are just extraordinarily unaware of all kinds of things. If you live in the middle of…
- The truth is: the natural world is changing. And we are totally dependent on that world. It provides our food, water and air. It is…
- 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 World Quotes
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach