Sir David Attenborough Quotes

• 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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• I’ve been to Nepal, but I’d like to go to Tibet. It must be a wonderful place to go. I don’t think there’s anything there, but it would be a nice place to visit.

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• 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.

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• People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.

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

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• People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile.

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

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• The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?

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• 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.

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• The fundamental issue is the moral issue.

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• Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on a license which is not the same as a government grant.

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• 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.

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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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• 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.

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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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• 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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• 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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• Natural history is not about producing fables.

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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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• 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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Sir David Attenborough (51)

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

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