David Attenborough
David Attenborough
Sir David Frederick Attenborough OM CH CVO CBE FRS FLS FZS FSA is an English broadcaster and naturalist...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionTV Show Host
Date of Birth8 May 1926
CityIsleworth, England
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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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You don't meet many 5-year-olds who are not interested in a hedgehog or a stickleback.
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We are not overpopulated in an absolute sense; we've got the technology for 10 billion, probably 15 billion people, to live on this planet and live good lives. What we haven't done is developed our technology.
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I think there will be radical changes. But I don't actually think that within the next 100 years the natural world will be reduced to rats and cockroaches, nor do I think that the plant world will be reduced to some kind of desert.
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Just recently we were coming out of Niger and it so happened that there was a great pilgrimage so all the hotels were full. We ended up sleeping on the floor in tin huts with bed bugs and fleas.
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I get Indian ring-necked parakeets in my garden every morning. There's a big colony living wild down the road. There might be some out there now.
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People knew that animals were nocturnal but they didn't really know what they did because they couldn't see it.
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I remember sleeping in places that were infested with rats and waking up with one trundling over my face. Actually, I hate rats! In my time, I've picked up all sorts of things in hotels-fleas, lice, tapeworm.
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I haven't-touch wood-had a stomach upset for 15 or 20 years.
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I'm coming towards the end of the shelf.
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Things change... I don't think we should regard change as a disaster.
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If you don't pay attention to it... one doesn't want to be too high-flown about this... but it can lead to a great spiritual deprivation.
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How could anyone believe they actually deserved something like this? ... I can only think that it is because I have been able to reach so many people through television.
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How could anyone believe they actually deserved something like this?