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
curiosity divine characteristics
It is curiosity, quite right-a divine curiosity. A characteristic of the gods is curiosity.
views people support
We keep putting on programmes about famine in Ethiopia; that's what's happening. Too many people there. They can't support themselves - and it's not an inhuman thing to say. It's the case. Until humanity manages to sort itself out and get a coordinated view about the planet it's going to get worse and worse.
god ideas giving
The idea that the Lord had given us a present, that the world is a gift from God... well, the amount of stuff, back then, that the Lord was giving away was limited. We do not have dominion.
animal-rights moral species
It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species.
animal keys world
Warm-bloodedness is one of the key factors that have enabled mammals to conquer the Earth, and to develop the most complex bodies in the animal kingdom. In this series, we will travel the world to discover just how varied and how astonishing mammals are.
animal people needs
The more you go on, the less you need people standing between you and the animal and the camera waving their arms about.
taken years sea
Birds were flying from continent to continent long before we were. They reached the coldest place on Earth, Antarctica, long before we did. They can survive in the hottest of deserts. Some can remain on the wing for years at a time. They can girdle the globe. Now, we have taken over the earth and the sea and the sky, but with skill and care and knowledge, we can ensure that there is still a place on Earth for birds in all their beauty and variety - if we want to... And surely, we should.
bird spiders monkeys
What I am interested in with birds, just as I am with spiders or monkeys, is what they do and why they do it.
sweat tin hell
Getting to places like Bangkok or Singapore was a hell of a sweat. But when you got there it was the back of beyond. It was just a series of small tin sheds.
economic advantage bases
I'm against this huge globalisation on the basis of economic advantage.
animal thinking bird
Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know them. And yet they inhabit a world which is really rather mysterious.
way aim unkind
Nature isn't positive in that way. It doesn't aim itself at you. It's not being unkind to you.
views humanity planets
Until humanity manages to sort itself out and get a co-ordinated view about the planet, it's going to get worse and worse.
silly animal python
I've been bitten by a python. Not a very big one. I was being silly, saying: 'Oh, it's not poisonous' Then, wallop! But you have fear around animals.