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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
travel wish half
I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.
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.
animal-rights moral species
It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species.
economic advantage bases
I'm against this huge globalisation on the basis of economic advantage.
nice thinking places-to-go
I've been to Nepal, but I'd like to go to Tibet. It must be a wonderful place to go. I don't think there's anything there, but it would be a nice place to visit.