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
giving-up looks causes
The correct scientific response to something that is not understood must always be to look harder for the explanation, not give up and assume a supernatural cause.
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.
nature responsibility passion
Bringing nature into the classroom can kindle a fascination and passion for the diversity of life on earth and can motivate a sense of responsibility to safeguard it.
animal rhinos way
The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between it and millions of other species of both animals and plants.
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.
animal ecosystems world
If we and the rest of the back-boned animals were to disappear overnight, the rest of the world would get on pretty well. But if the invertebrates were to disappear, the world's ecosystems would collapse
choices environment cherish
We can now destroy or we can cherish-the choice is ours.
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.
moving three gears
I can mention many moments that were unforgettable and revelatory. But the most single revelatory three minutes was the first time I put on scuba gear and dived on a coral reef. It's just the unbelievable fact that you can move in three dimensions.
interesting world fortune
I'm swanning round the world looking at the most fabulously interesting things. Such good fortune.
nice mean thinking
I'm not an animal lover if that means you think things are nice if you can pat them, but I am intoxicated by animals.
animal astounded
I'm not over-fond of animals. I am merely astounded by them.
travel good-times guilty
Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English.
thinking lucky
I think we're lucky to be living when we are, because things are going to get worse.