David Attenborough Quotes

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

Great, Natural, Curiosity

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.
David Attenborough

Time, Single, Put

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.
David Attenborough

Small, Hell, Getting

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

Care, Unless, Animal

I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.
David Attenborough

Wish, Big, Half

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

Care, Two, Whole

Dealing with global warming doesn't mean we have all got to suddenly stop breathing. Dealing with global warming means that we have to stop waste, and if you travel for no reason whatsoever, that is a waste.
David Attenborough

Travel, Mean, Reason

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.
David Attenborough

Far, Natural, Seem

People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.
David Attenborough

Amazing, Beautiful, Important

The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between it and millions of other species of both animals and plants.
David Attenborough

Between, Lives, Both

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

Happy, Book, May

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

Different, Problems, Alive

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

Touch, Natural, Crucial

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 a world which is really rather mysterious.
David Attenborough

Rather, Group, Popular

Crying wolf is a real danger.
David Attenborough

Real, Crying, Danger

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.
David Attenborough

Car, Hate, Fact

If I can bicycle, I bicycle.
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

Eyes, Everyone, Bird

I often get letters, quite frequently, from people who say how they like the programmes a lot, but I never give credit to the almighty power that created nature.
David Attenborough

Nature, Power, Give

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.
David Attenborough

Nice, Place, Wonderful

If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in life is to pass on their genes to the next generation.
David Attenborough

Life, Time, Next

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 interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.
David Attenborough

Life, Beauty, Greatest

Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.
David Attenborough

Success, Change, Politics

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

Why, Interested, Birds

All we can hope for is that the thing is going to slowly and imperceptibly shift. All I can say is that 50 years ago there were no such thing as environmental policies.
David Attenborough

Hope, Policies, Shift

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Nationality: British

Type: Journalist

Born: May 8, 1926

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