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's lost on me. I can just about tell if it's got a jet engine or one of those funny things on the front!
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It's about cherishing the woodland at the bottom of your garden or the stream that runs through it. It affects every aspect of life.
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Very few people in the history of biology could have seen as much of the actual things that I have, and the sad thing is that I do so little with it. I'm so busy gobbling it up that I don't sort of digest 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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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?
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There are a multitude of things that the individual can do. There is the present debate going on about petrol, for instance. The fact is that we are poisoning the atmosphere and the less fumes we put in it, the better. And we are using up our fossil fuels.
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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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You don't meet many 5-year-olds who are not interested in a hedgehog or a stickleback.
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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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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.