When I was right in the middle of Borneo, you thought you were in a different world. There was no radio, no ways of communicating. (David Attenborough)
You know, it is a terrible thing to appear on television, because people think that you actually know what you're talking about. (David Attenborough)
All we can hope for is that the thing is going to slowly and imperceptibly shift. All I can say is that 50 years ago there were no such thing as environmental policies. (David Attenborough)
I like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. The travel bit is what you have to do in order to go and look at animals. (David Attenborough)
Oh, my capacity for guilt is enormous. I'm all the time thinking I'm not doing the things I should be doing, not doing enough of it, or I said I'd be vice-president of something or other, and what I have I done Nothing. (David Attenborough)
It was regarded as a responsibility of the BBC to provide programs which have a broad spectrum of interest, and if there was a hole in that spectrum, then the BBC would fill it. (David Attenborough)
It's not just that we are dependent on the natural world for our food and for the very air we breathe-which is, of course, the case-and that the very richness of the natural world continues to provide us with all kinds of assistance. (David Attenborough)
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book? (David Attenborough)
I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see a wild creature from dawn 'til dusk, unless it's a pigeon, which isn't really wild, which might come and settle near them. (David Attenborough)
I remember sleeping in places that were infested with rats and waking up with one trundling over my face. Actually, I hate rats In my time, I've picked up all sorts of things in hotels-fleas, lice, tapeworm. (David Attenborough)
I haven't-touch wood-had a stomach upset for 15 or 20 years. (David Attenborough)
If you don't pay attention to it... one doesn't want to be too high-flown about this... but it can lead to a great spiritual deprivation. (David Attenborough)
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