Quotes by David Attenborough

About David Attenborough:

Sir David Frederick Attenborough is an English broadcaster and naturalist.
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You know, it is a terrible thing to appear on television, because people think that you actually know what you're talking about.

David Attenborough

The fundamental issue is the moral issue.

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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 world... which doesn't seem to me to be necessarily blasphemous at all.

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I am an ardent recycler. I would like to think that it works. I don't know whether it does or not.

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We are a plague on the Earth.

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I believe the Abominable Snowman may be real. I think there may be something in that.

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I don't approve of sunbathing, and it's bad for you.

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I'd like to see the giant squid. Nobody has ever seen one. I could tell you people who have spent thousands and thousands of pounds trying to see giant squid. I mean, we know they exist because we have seen dead ones. But I have never seen a living o...

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The more you go on, the less you need people standing between you and the animal and the camera waving their arms about.

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If I can make programmes when I'm 95, that would be fine. But I would think I'll have had enough by then.

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I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours of arrival.

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It was regarded as a responsibility of the BBC to provide programs which have a broad spectrum of interest, and if there was a hole in that spectrum, then the BBC would fill it.

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I don’t know [why we're here]. People sometimes say to me, ‘Why don’t you admit that the humming bird, the butterfly, the Bird of Paradise are proof of the wonderful things produced by Creation?’ And I always say, well, when you say that, you...

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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 products of 3,000 Million years of organic evolution, than a kind of country trick, taking a rib out of a man'...

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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 most precious thing we have and we need to defend it.

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No one will protect what they don't care about; and no one will care about what they have never experiened

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‎Using his burgeoning intelligence, this most successful of all mammals has exploited the environment to produce food for an ever increasing population. Instead of controlling the environment for the benefit of the population, perhaps it's time we ...

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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 that vast continent, with apparently everything your heart could wish for just because you were born t...

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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 gear and dived on a coral reef. It's just the unbelievable fact that you can move in three dimensions.

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You have to steer a course between not appalling people, but at the same time not misleading them.

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I'm absolutely strict about it. When I land, I put my watch right, and I don't care what I feel like, I will go to bed at half past eleven. If that means going to bed early or late, that's what I live by. As soon as you get there, live by that time.

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Author Bio

  • NameDavid Attenborough
  • DescriptionBritish broadcaster and naturalist
  • BornMay 8, 1926
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionActor; Film Director; Screenwriter; Autobiographer
  • AwardsCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire; Commander Of The Royal Victorian Order; Kalinga Prize; Princess Of Asturias Award - Social Sciences