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
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I remember sleeping in places that were infested with rats and waking up with one trundling over my face. Actually, I hate rats! In my time, I've picked up all sorts of things in hotels-fleas, lice, tapeworm.
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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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I'm coming towards the end of the shelf.
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I haven't-touch wood-had a stomach upset for 15 or 20 years.
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How could anyone believe they actually deserved something like this? ... I can only think that it is because I have been able to reach so many people through television.
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How could anyone believe they actually deserved something like this?
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I'm especially involved, for example, in the Richmond Environmental Centre. That's one of those things you can hardly say no to.
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I joined the BBC as a trainee. At first, the television service had no money and it was regarded as a rather raffish arm of the BBC.
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I asked the airline staff what I was going to do with all the animals as I didn't have any food for them. They were very unhelpful.
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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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If I do a series or tapes for the States and it's sponsored by somebody for the public broadcast system, I am committed to going on tour around various stations.
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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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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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Things change... I don't think we should regard change as a disaster.