Sir David Attenborough Quotes

Sir David Attenborough (50)

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

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

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• 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.

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• I don’t run a car, have never run a car. I could say that this is because I have this extremely tender environmentalist conscience, but the fact is I hate driving.

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• 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.

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• Crying wolf is a real danger.

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

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

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• 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.

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• Being in touch with the natural world is crucial.

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• I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.

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• In the old days… it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn’t have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn’t use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes.

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• I’m against this huge globalisation on the basis of economic advantage.

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• If I can bicycle, I bicycle.

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• Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.

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

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• I’m absolutely strict about it. When I land, I put my watch right, and I don’t care what I feel like, I will go to bed at half past eleven. If that means going to bed early or late, that’s what I live by. As soon as you get there, live by that time.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• I’m not in politics.

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

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