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
inspirational motivational book
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?
nature air water
The truth is: the natural world is changing. And we are totally dependent on that world. It provides our food, water and air. It is the most precious thing we have and we need to defend it.
survival benefits population
Instead of controlling the environment for the benefit of the population, perhaps we should control the population to ensure the survival of our environment
care dont-care protect
No one will protect what they don't care about, and no one will care about what they have never experienced.
beauty nature earth-day
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.
horses sea solution
You know, we could say yes, they were about to exterminate sea horses and now they aren't... But it isn't a solution to the world's problems.
hedgehog interested meet
You don't meet many 5-year-olds who are not interested in a hedgehog or a stickleback.
actual biology busy digest few history people sad seen sort
Very few people in the history of biology could have seen as much of the actual things that I have, and the sad thing is that I do so little with it. I'm so busy gobbling it up that I don't sort of digest it.
colony garden indian living might wild
I get Indian ring-necked parakeets in my garden every morning. There's a big colony living wild down the road. There might be some out there now.
consequences fishing obvious policy transport
Here we are with even the most obvious things like a fishing policy or a transport policy-we know what the consequences are.
middle ways
When I was right in the middle of Borneo, you thought you were in a different world. There was no radio, no ways of communicating.
advantage issue moral neither
Neither have I said we have got to do this because of some pharmaceutical advantage there may or may not be. The moral issue is that we should not impoverish this world.
cockpit fellow funny last sat therefore travelled trip
My last trip was to the States, and on the way back I sat in the cockpit for take-off and landing. In a funny way, I think aircrew know that I've travelled a lot and therefore feel we are fellow professionals to some degree-which is nice, very complimentary.
clear course economists europe join north people reasons scotland themselves time wales yes
People say we have all got to join Europe for reasons which even the economists themselves aren't clear on-at the same time we're saying, well yes of course Scotland has got to be independent. And why don't we make Wales independent too? And the north of England.