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
growth world birth
In the West, that's what's happening. The birth rate has been dropping steadily and still is. But there is still a vast amount of the world where that's not the case. And that is where the big population growth is taking place.
affects aspect bottom garden runs stream
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.
capacity guilt thinking time
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.
long humanity threat
Humanity is facing a very big, slow, long, drawn-out threat, and that is to do with the way the weather is changing and the size of the population.
energy
If we were all to reduce our demands for energy, it would make an enormous amount of difference.
airline animals asked food staff
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.
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.
mountain tibet
I would love to go and see the Himalayan Mountain Kingdoms. There are very few left now. I would loved to have gone to Tibet and Nepal. And there are still parts of central Asia that are utterly unexplored.
anyone believe deserved people reach
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.
animal thinking
I think the most alarming animals I have encountered are really poisonous snakes.
company easy environmental oil setting spit sure
It's very easy to say everything is outrageous. But if you have an oil company that's setting up its own environmental department, for example, what do you do? Do you spit in its eye, or do you make sure that what they do actually has some substance?
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.
attention great lead pay spiritual
If you don't pay attention to it... one doesn't want to be too high-flown about this... but it can lead to a great spiritual deprivation.
tomorrow disaster
The nature of human beings is that they'd far rather face the disaster that is happening tonight than the one that is happening tomorrow.