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
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.
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.
stomach upset
I haven't-touch wood-had a stomach upset for 15 or 20 years.
bed bugs coming ended floor great happened hotels pilgrimage recently sleeping tin
Just recently we were coming out of Niger and it so happened that there was a great pilgrimage so all the hotels were full. We ended up sleeping on the floor in tin huts with bed bugs and fleas.
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.
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.
travel wish half
I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.
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.
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.