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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

Pier Angeli was in the movie called Sea of Sand that Guy Green directed where this idea came up. — Richard Attenborough

I don't blame people for their mistakes, but I do ask that they pay for them. — Richard Attenborough

There's nothing more important in making movies than the screenplay. — Richard 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

I think it is obscene that we should believe that we are entitled to end somebody's life, no matter what that person has supposedly done or not done. — Richard Attenborough

It never really occurred to me to believe in God. — David Attenborough

What I am sad about is that there is now, in America, no equivalent to the art circuit. — Richard Attenborough

And I believe we need heroes, I believe we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by. — Richard 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

I do care about style. I do care, but I only care about style that serves the subject. — Richard 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

I was on my own union council for twenty-odd years. — Richard Attenborough

On my last day of shooting, I'd be happy to say 'Cut, it's a wrap' and fall off the twig. — Richard 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 don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics. — Richard Attenborough

I am passionately opposed to capital punishment, and I have been all my life. — Richard Attenborough

I'm a passionate trade unionist. — Richard Attenborough

I believe in trade unionism, and I believe in democracy, in democratic trade unionism. — Richard Attenborough

There is such a big chunk of me that is David Attenborough. I think he is my biggest inspiration. — Bjork

Crying wolf is a real danger. — David Attenborough

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

Do we really require so many gardening programmes, makeover programmes or celebrity chefs? — David Attenborough

Nothing in the natural world makes sense - except when seen in the light of evolution — 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

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

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

In the Baboon community, it is not how strong you are that is important, but who you know that counts — David Attenborough

I can't write, I can't paint, I don't compose. — Richard Attenborough

I think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home. — David Attenborough

I think Tom Paine is one of the greatest men that's ever lived. — Richard 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

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

If I can bicycle, I bicycle. — 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

I passionately believe in heroes, but I think the world has changed its criteria in determining who it describes as a hero. — Richard Attenborough

It is that range of biodiversity that we must care for - the whole thing - rather than just one or two stars. — David Attenborough

I just love biography, and I'm fascinated by people who have shifted our destinies or our points of view. — Richard Attenborough

I prefer fact to fiction. — Richard 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

If you've ever seen the film In Which We Serve, but it was about a destroyer in the Mediterranean. — Richard Attenborough

People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile. — 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

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

Art is not an elitist gift for a few select people. Art is for everyone. — Richard Attenborough

Nature isn't positive in that way. It doesn't aim itself at you. It's not being unkind to you. — David Attenborough

If we [humans] disappeared overnight, the world would probably be better off. — David Attenborough

Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English. — David Attenborough

Can a growing human population still leave space for wildlife? — 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 a big fan of David Attenborough, who I think is the most adventurous of the nature program presenters. — Oona Chaplin

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

Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel. — David Attenborough

One in eight plant species face extinction. — David Attenborough

I'm swanning round the world looking at the most fabulously interesting things. Such good fortune. — 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

I'm no longer sceptical. I no longer have any doubt at all. I think climate change is the major challenge facing the world. — 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

Now, I find that very difficult to reconcile with notions about a merciful God. — David Attenborough

Being in touch with the natural world is crucial. — David Attenborough

Natural history is not about producing fables. — David Attenborough