Sir David Attenborough Quotes

• Most of the animals that appeared on British television screens in1950 did so sitting on door-mats.

  Sir David Attenborough

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• You have to steer a course between not appalling people, but at the same time not misleading them.

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• You can cry about death and very properly so, your own as well as anybody else’s. But it’s inevitable, so you’d better grapple with it and cope and be aware that not only is it inevitable, but it has always been inevitable, if you see what I mean.

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• There is no question that climate change is happening; the only arguable point is what part humans are playing in it.

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• There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of staying alive.

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• The process of making natural history films is to try to prevent the animal knowing you are there, so you get glimpses of a non-human world, and that is a transporting thing.

  Sir David Attenborough

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• The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates; none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason to be optimistic.

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• Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren’t aware that you are not treating them with respect, the viewers are.

  Sir David Attenborough

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• If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you’re driven to the conclusion that their main aim in life is to pass on their genes to the next generation.

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• I’m not a propagandist, I’m not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how animals work.

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• I’d like to see the giant squid. Nobody has ever seen one. I could tell you people who have spent thousands and thousands of pounds trying to see giant squid. I mean, we know they exist because we have seen dead ones. But I have never seen a living one. Nor has anybody else.

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• People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly clearly. Periodic famines are due to too many people living on land that can’t sustain them.

  Sir David Attenborough

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• Natural history is not about producing fables.

  Sir David Attenborough

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• It is vital that there is a narrator figure whom people believe. That’s why I never do commercials. If I started saying that margarine was the same as motherhood, people would think I was a liar.

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• If my grandchildren were to look at me and say, ‘You were aware species were disappearing and you did nothing, you said nothing’, that I think is culpable. I don’t know how much more they expect me to be doing, I’d better ask them.

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• If I were beginning my career today, I don’t think I would take the same direction. Television is at a crossroads at the moment. And although I am not up to date technologically, I suspect that somewhere out there people are conveying things about natural history by means other than television, and I think if I were beginning today, I’d be there.

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• I would be absolutely astounded if population growth and industrialisation and all the stuff we are pumping into the atmosphere hadn’t changed the climatic balance. Of course it has. There is no valid argument for denial.

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• You know, it is a terrible thing to appear on television, because people think that you actually know what you’re talking about.

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• You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That’s what natural history programmes should be for.

  Sir David Attenborough

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

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Sir David Attenborough (51)

Birth:	8th May, 1926
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Broadcaster, Naturalist, Television Presenter, Television Producer, Writer

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