David Attenborough Quotes (63 Quotes)

It's very easy to say everything is outrageous. But if you have an oil company that's setting up its own environmental department, for example, what do you do Do you spit in its eye, or do you make sure that what they do actually has some substance

An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment.

Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English.

I'm not in politics.

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.

We've lived here for 38 years. This is where our kids were born, and this is my place. As far as I'm concerned, if I can't have this, I don't want anything.

It's about cherishing the woodland at the bottom of your garden or the stream that runs through it. It affects every aspect of life.

The fundamental issue is the moral issue.

It is that range of biodiversity that we must care for - the whole thing - rather than just one or two stars.

The whole of science, and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man, is trying to come to terms with the relationship between yourself and the natural world. Why are you here, and how do you fit in, and what's it all about.

Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel.

I once had aspirations to be an anthropologist, and I know from anthropology that people will not accept difficult political instructions or governmental decisions from somebody who is totally divorced from them. If it doesn't speak the same language, it's no good.

The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between it and millions of other species of both animals and plants.