David Attenborough
David Attenborough
Sir David Frederick Attenborough OM CH CVO CBE FRS FLS FZS FSA is an English broadcaster and naturalist...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionTV Show Host
Date of Birth8 May 1926
CityIsleworth, England
thinking talking people
You know, it is a terrible thing to appear on television, because people think that you actually know what you're talking about.
attitude ocean grandchildren
[W]hen we look at the graphs of rising ocean temperatures, rising carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and so on, we know that they are climbing far more steeply than can be accounted for by the natural oscillation of the weather ... What people (must) do is to change their behavior and their attitudes ... If we do care about our grandchildren then we have to do something, and we have to demand that our governments do something.
hands survival world
Clearly we could devastate the world... as far as we know, the Earth is the only place in the universe where there is life. Its continued survival now rests in our hands
thinking animal people
People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile.
nature earth-day understanding
An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment.
emotional interesting body
Life is not all high emotion. Some of the most interesting things are when its not highly emotional: little details of relationships and body language.
interesting world fortune
I'm swanning round the world looking at the most fabulously interesting things. Such good fortune.
stars two care
It is that range of biodiversity that we must care for - the whole thing - rather than just one or two stars.
thinking challenges doubt
I'm no longer sceptical. I no longer have any doubt at all. I think climate change is the major challenge facing the world.
eye bird ears
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?
animal different alive
There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of staying alive.
baby eye thinking
Apart from anything else, I am designed by evolution, like we all are: if we see a little thing like that, big eyes, tiny nose, we go 'aaah'. That's what evolution does. We are programmed to do that. So to find babies the most amazing, isn't surprising, I don't think.
world humans ifs
If we [humans] disappeared overnight, the world would probably be better off.
travel good-times guilty
Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English.