Explore Quotes by David Attenborough

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

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

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

London has fine museums, the British Library is one of the greatest library institutions in the world... It's got everything you want, really.

Natural history is not about producing fables.

If I can make programmes when I'm 95, that would be fine. But I would think I'll have had enough by then.

I'm not an animal lover if that means you think things are nice if you can pat them, but I am intoxicated by animals.

I'm swanning round the world looking at the most fabulously interesting things. Such good fortune.

I'm luckier than my grandfather, who didn't move more than five miles from the village in which he was born.

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

I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours of arrival.

I don't approve of sunbathing, and it's bad for you.

I believe the Abominable Snowman may be real. I think there may be something in that.

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

All our environmental problems become easier to solve with fewer people and harder - and ultimately impossible to solve - with ever more people.

It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species.

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.

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

We keep putting on programmes about famine in Ethiopia; that’s what’s happening. Too many people there. They can’t support themselves — and it’s not an inhuman thing to say. It’s the case. Until humanity manages to sort itself out and get a coordinated view about the planet it’s going to get worse and worse.

As far as I'm concerned, if there is a supreme being then He chose organic evolution as a way of bringing into existence the natural world... which doesn't seem to me to be necessarily blasphemous at all.

It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.