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
animal knowing trying
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.
strong community important
In the Baboon community, it is not how strong you are that is important, but who you know that counts
people needs ponzi-scheme
The notion of ever more old people needing ever more young people, who in turn will grow old and need ever more young people and so on, ad infinitum, is an obvious ecological Ponzi scheme.
animal keys world
Warm-bloodedness is one of the key factors that have enabled mammals to conquer the Earth, and to develop the most complex bodies in the animal kingdom. In this series, we will travel the world to discover just how varied and how astonishing mammals are.
gardening television chef
Do we really require so many gardening programmes, makeover programmes or celebrity chefs?
beautiful reptiles dull
Reptiles and amphibians are sometimes thought of as primitive, dull and dimwitted. In fact, of course, they can be lethally fast, spectacularly beautiful, surprisingly affectionate and very sophisticated.
lonely long people
At a time when it's possible for thirty people to stand on the top of Everest in one day, Antarctica still remains a remote, lonely and desolate continent. A place where it's possible to see the splendours and immensities of the natural world at its most dramatic and, what's more, witness them almost exactly as they were, long, long before human beings ever arrived on the surface of this planet. Long may it remain so.
sides dignity decent
Trade is a proper and decent relationship, with dignity and respect on both sides.
animal trying interest
I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how animals work.
mountain tibet
I would love to go and see the Himalayan Mountain Kingdoms. There are very few left now. I would loved to have gone to Tibet and Nepal. And there are still parts of central Asia that are utterly unexplored.
growth world birth
In the West, that's what's happening. The birth rate has been dropping steadily and still is. But there is still a vast amount of the world where that's not the case. And that is where the big population growth is taking place.
modern
All the modern devices we have enable us to investigate things and have enabled us to do better.
animal thinking
I think the most alarming animals I have encountered are really poisonous snakes.
people
I would love to see a giant squid. Very few people have seen them. And only about half a dozen people have seen one alive.