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
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.
animal thinking
I think the most alarming animals I have encountered are really poisonous snakes.
animals knew nocturnal people
People knew that animals were nocturnal but they didn't really know what they did because they couldn't see it.
amazingly gone last living places possibly privileged
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.
natural next nor plant radical rats reduced within
I think there will be radical changes. But I don't actually think that within the next 100 years the natural world will be reduced to rats and cockroaches, nor do I think that the plant world will be reduced to some kind of desert.
loose quite sure
You were never quite sure which were pickpockets or loose ladies.
engine funny jet lost
It's lost on me. I can just about tell if it's got a jet engine or one of those funny things on the front!
humanity climate-change terrorist
Climate change will affect the whole of humanity, while terrorist attacks will only affect a small section of humanity. Of course, you wouldn't say that if you were related to someone who had been beheaded or blown up or murdered.
awful axe good grinding
I do an awful lot of appearances, and to have one person always grinding the same axe would not be a good idea.
environmental example hardly richmond
I'm especially involved, for example, in the Richmond Environmental Centre. That's one of those things you can hardly say no to.
modern
All the modern devices we have enable us to investigate things and have enabled us to do better.
consequences fishing obvious policy transport
Here we are with even the most obvious things like a fishing policy or a transport policy-we know what the consequences are.
stomach upset
I haven't-touch wood-had a stomach upset for 15 or 20 years.
colony garden indian living might wild
I get Indian ring-necked parakeets in my garden every morning. There's a big colony living wild down the road. There might be some out there now.