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I'm against this huge globalisation on the basis of economic advantage.
— David Attenborough
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?
— David Attenborough
All our environmental problems become easier to solve with fewer people and harder - and ultimately impossible to solve - with ever more people.
— David Attenborough
You have to steer a course between not appalling people, but at the same time not misleading them.
— David Attenborough
The World is full of wonders, but they become more Wonderful, not less Wonderful when Science looks at them.
— David Attenborough
Its about cherishing the woodland at the bottom of your garden or the stream that runs through it. It affects every aspect of life.
— David Attenborough
I believe the Abominable Snowman may be real. I think there may be something in that.
— David Attenborough
It never really occurred to me to believe in God.
— David Attenborough
I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours of arrival.
— David Attenborough
It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species.
— David Attenborough
Trade is a proper and decent relationship, with dignity and respect on both sides.
— 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 over-fond of animals. I am merely astounded by them.
— David Attenborough
I think we're lucky to be living when we are, because things are going to get worse.
— David Attenborough
We are a plague on the Earth.
— David Attenborough
The fundamental issue is the moral issue.
— David Attenborough
Anyone who thinks that you can have infinite growth on a planet with finite resources is either a madman or an economist.
— 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 by animals.
— David Attenborough
There is no question that climate change is happening; the only arguable point is what part humans are playing in it.
— David Attenborough
All life is related. And it enables us to construct with confidence the complex tree that represents the history of life
— David Attenborough
The reverse side of the coin in having this extraordinary ability to go anywhere, is that no one anywhere is remote any more.
— David Attenborough
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
I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.
— David Attenborough
Since when has Finland been a rotten place to live in?
— David Attenborough
I am an ardent recycler. I would like to think that it works. I don't know whether it does or not.
— David Attenborough
There are perfectly good independent small nations.
— David Attenborough
Now, I find that very difficult to reconcile with notions about a merciful God.
— David Attenborough
The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates; none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason to be optimistic.
— David Attenborough
I don't approve of sunbathing, and it's bad for you.
— David Attenborough
Being in touch with the natural world is crucial.
— David Attenborough
Nothing in the natural world makes sense - except when seen in the light of evolution
— David Attenborough
Do we really require so many gardening programmes, makeover programmes or celebrity chefs?
— David Attenborough
Crying wolf is a real danger.
— David Attenborough
There is such a big chunk of me that is David Attenborough. I think he is my biggest inspiration.
— Bjork
No one will protect what they don't care about; and no one will care about what they have never experiened
— David Attenborough
What humans do over the next 50 years will determine the fate of all life on the planet.
— David Attenborough
There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of staying alive.
— David Attenborough
I have no doubt that the fundamental problem the planet faces is the enormous increase in the human population
— David Attenborough
What I am interested in with birds, just as I am with spiders or monkeys, is what they do and why they do it.
— David Attenborough
It is curiosity, quite right-a divine curiosity. A characteristic of the gods is curiosity.
— David Attenborough
An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment.
— David Attenborough
I'm luckier than my grandfather, who didn't move more than five miles from the village in which he was born.
— David Attenborough
If I can bicycle, I bicycle.
— David Attenborough
The more you go on, the less you need people standing between you and the animal and the camera waving their arms about.
— David Attenborough
I think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home.
— David Attenborough
In the Baboon community, it is not how strong you are that is important, but who you know that counts
— David Attenborough
Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English.
— David Attenborough
Natural history is not about producing fables.
— David Attenborough
People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.
— David Attenborough
London has fine museums, the British Library is one of the greatest library institutions in the world ... It's got everything you want, really.
— David Attenborough
If I can make programmes when I'm 95, that would be fine. But I would think I'll have had enough by then.
— David Attenborough
We can now manipulate images to such an extrodinary extent that there's no lie you cannot tell.
— David Attenborough
I'm not in politics.
— David Attenborough
People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile.
— David Attenborough
How could I look my grandchildren in the eye and say I knew what was happening to the world and did nothing.
— David Attenborough
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 as a bird?
— David Attenborough
We can now destroy or we can cherish-the choice is ours.
— David Attenborough
Nature isn't positive in that way. It doesn't aim itself at you. It's not being unkind to you.
— David Attenborough
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If we [humans] disappeared overnight, the world would probably be better off.
— David Attenborough
It is that range of biodiversity that we must care for - the whole thing - rather than just one or two stars.
— David Attenborough
Can a growing human population still leave space for wildlife?
— David Attenborough
I'm a big fan of David Attenborough, who I think is the most adventurous of the nature program presenters.
— Oona Chaplin
Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel.
— David Attenborough
One in eight plant species face extinction.
— David Attenborough
