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
ocean moon islands
The savage, rocky shores of Christmas Island, 200 miles south of Java, in the Indian Ocean. It's November, the moon is in its third quarter, and the sun is just setting. In a few hours from now, on this very shore, a thousand million lives will be launched.
travel good-times guilty
Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English.
travel home journey
I think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home.
cycling ifs i-can
If I can bicycle, I bicycle.
travel mean past
I'm absolutely strict about it. When I land, I put my watch right, and I don't care what I feel like, I will go to bed at half past eleven. If that means going to bed early or late, that's what I live by. As soon as you get there, live by that time.
travel animal order
I like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. The travel bit is what you have to do in order to go and look at animals.
travel order navy
Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel.
animal-rights moral species
It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species.
economic advantage bases
I'm against this huge globalisation on the basis of economic advantage.
fables natural natural-history
Natural history is not about producing fables.
liars believe motherhood
It is vital that there is a narrator figure whom people believe. That's why I never do commercials. If I started saying that margarine was the same as motherhood, people would think I was a liar.
rotten places-to-live finland
Since when has Finland been a rotten place to live in?
nice thinking places-to-go
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.
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.