Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" I've been bitten by a python. Not a very big one. I was being silly, saying: 'Oh, it's not poisonous...' Then, wallop! But you have fear around animals. "
David Attenborough
You
Silly
Animals
Related Quotes:
" 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. "
David Attenborough
You
Living
People
" If I can bicycle, I bicycle. "
David Attenborough
Bicycle
I Can
" Being in touch with the natural world is crucial. "
David Attenborough
World
Touch
Natural World
" Crying wolf is a real danger. "
David Attenborough
Wolf
Real
Danger
" 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. "
David Attenborough
Know
Grandchildren
Think
" 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. "
David Attenborough
Decisions
Value
History
" I'm against this huge globalisation on the basis of economic advantage. "
David Attenborough
Globalisation
Huge
Against
" I don't like rats, but there's not much else I don't like. The problem with rats is they have no fear of human beings, they're loaded with foul diseases, they would run the place given half the chance, and I've had them leap out of a lavatory while I've been sitting on it. "
David Attenborough
Run
Chance
Leap
" I had a huge advantage when I started 50 years ago - my job was secure. I didn't have to promote myself. These days there's far more pressure to make a mark, so the temptation is to make adventure television or personality shows. I hope the more didactic approach won't be lost. "
David Attenborough
Adventure
Myself
Job
" What I am interested in with birds, just as I am with spiders or monkeys, is what they do and why they do it. "
David Attenborough
Monkeys
Just
Birds
" People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure. "
David Attenborough
Beautiful
World
People
" 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. "
David Attenborough
Respect
Animals
You
" 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. "
David Attenborough
Hope
Say
I Can
" Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know them. And yet they inhabit a world which is really rather mysterious. "
David Attenborough
Know
World
Animal
" 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. "
David Attenborough
Always
Better
Cry
" 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. "
David Attenborough
Government
Same
Television
" I'm luckier than my grandfather, who didn't move more than five miles from the village in which he was born. "
David Attenborough
Village
Born
Move
" 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. "
David Attenborough
My Own
Own
History
" To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can see. The Archbishop of Canterbury doesn't believe that. "
David Attenborough
I Can
God
Children
" I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how animals work. "
David Attenborough
Work
Animals
Trying
" I'm not in politics. "
David Attenborough
Politics
" You have to steer a course between not appalling people, but at the same time not misleading them. "
David Attenborough
Same
People
You
" 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. "
David Attenborough
People
Motherhood
Saying
" 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. "
David Attenborough
Argument
Denial
Growth
" 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. "
David Attenborough
Think
Animal
Animals
" 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. "
David Attenborough
Process
You
Animal
" 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. "
David Attenborough
Change
Success
Politics
" The more you go on, the less you need people standing between you and the animal and the camera waving their arms about. "
David Attenborough
Animal
You
People
" 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. "
David Attenborough
Way
Only
Animals
" Dealing with global warming doesn't mean we have all got to suddenly stop breathing. Dealing with global warming means that we have to stop waste, and if you travel for no reason whatsoever, that is a waste. "
David Attenborough
Stop
Breathing
Reason