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
people news shooting
That people will object very much to seeing a predator killing its prey, and yet, in the news, will accept showing shots of people shooting one another.
eight environmental extinction
One in eight plant species face extinction.
land people doom
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.
light world evolution
Nothing in the natural world makes sense - except when seen in the light of evolution
coins sides ability
The reverse side of the coin in having this extraordinary ability to go anywhere, is that no one anywhere is remote any more.
independent perfectly-good small-nations
There are perfectly good independent small nations.
rotten places-to-live finland
Since when has Finland been a rotten place to live in?
responsibility program broads
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.
liars believe motherhood
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.
use facts opinion
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.
moving grandfather village
I'm luckier than my grandfather, who didn't move more than five miles from the village in which he was born.
appreciate sunbathing
I don't approve of sunbathing, and it's bad for you.
people environmental population
All our environmental problems become easier to solve with fewer people and harder - and ultimately impossible to solve - with ever more people.
animal-rights moral species
It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species.