David Attenborough Quotes
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All our environmental problems become easier to solve with fewer people and harder - and ultimately impossible to solve - with ever more people.
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I think we're lucky to be living when we are, because things are going to get worse.
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I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see a wild creature from dawn 'til dusk, unless it's a pigeon, which isn't really wild, which might come and settle near them.
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Very few species have survived unchanged. There's one called lingula, which is a little shellfish, a little brachiopod about the size of my fingernail, that has survived for 500 million years, but it's survived by being unobtrusive and doing nothing, and you can't accuse human beings of that.
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The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?
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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.
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Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English.
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Birds are the most accomplished aeronauts the world has ever seen. They fly high and low, at great speed, and very slowly. And always with extraordinary precision and control.
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I don't run a car, have never run a car. I could say that this is because I have this extremely tender environmentalist conscience, but the fact is I hate driving.
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Getting to places like Bangkok or Singapore was a hell of a sweat. But when you got there it was the back of beyond. It was just a series of small tin sheds.
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I'm luckier than my grandfather, who didn't move more than five miles from the village in which he was born.
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Warm-bloodedness is one of the key factors that have enabled mammals to conquer the Earth, and to develop the most complex bodies in the animal kingdom. In this series, we will travel the world to discover just how varied and how astonishing mammals are.
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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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I've been to Nepal, but I'd like to go to Tibet. It must be a wonderful place to go. I don't think there's anything there, but it would be a nice place to visit.
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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'm against this huge globalisation on the basis of economic advantage.
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London has fine museums, the British Library is one of the greatest library institutions in the world... It's got everything you want, really.
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I would be absolutely astounded if population growth and industrialisation and all the stuff we are pumping into the atmosphere hadn't changed the climatic balance. Of course it has. There is no valid argument for denial.
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It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species.
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I don't approve of sunbathing, and it's bad for you.