David Attenborough Quotes

The whole of science, and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man, is trying to come to terms with the relationship between yourself and the natural world. Why are you here, and how do you fit in, and what's it all about.

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

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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.

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The fundamental issue is the moral issue.

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I do an awful lot of appearances, and to have one person always grinding the same axe would not be a good idea.

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

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I'm not in politics.

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It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species.

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Oh, my capacity for guilt is enormous. I'm all the time thinking I'm not doing the things I should be doing, not doing enough of it, or I said I'd be vice-president of something or other, and what I have I done Nothing.

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It's not just that we are dependent on the natural world for our food and for the very air we breathe-which is, of course, the case-and that the very richness of the natural world continues to provide us with all kinds of assistance.

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It's about cherishing the woodland at the bottom of your garden or the stream that runs through it. It affects every aspect of life.

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I mean, one is living an amazingly privileged life. It's only been the last 20 or so years that one could have possibly gone to all the places you and I go to.

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

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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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Here we are with even the most obvious things like a fishing policy or a transport policy-we know what the consequences are.

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There are a multitude of things that the individual can do. There is the present debate going on about petrol, for instance. The fact is that we are poisoning the atmosphere and the less fumes we put in it, the better. And we are using up our fossil fuels.

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

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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.

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I'm a very old BBC hand.

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

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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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Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on a license which is not the same as a government grant.

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An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment.

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You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural history programmes should be for.

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I'm against this huge globalisation on the basis of economic advantage.

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