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
god ideas giving
The idea that the Lord had given us a present, that the world is a gift from God... well, the amount of stuff, back then, that the Lord was giving away was limited. We do not have dominion.
giving people credit
I often get letters, quite frequently, from people who say how they like the programmes a lot, but I never give credit to the almighty power that created nature.
optimistic birth-rate giving
The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates; none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason to be optimistic.
giving-up looks causes
The correct scientific response to something that is not understood must always be to look harder for the explanation, not give up and assume a supernatural cause.
giving people able
Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that gives them a sixth sense of what the creature is going to do, so they can be ready to follow.
clear course economists europe join north people reasons scotland themselves time wales yes
People say we have all got to join Europe for reasons which even the economists themselves aren't clear on-at the same time we're saying, well yes of course Scotland has got to be independent. And why don't we make Wales independent too? And the north of England.
far kids lived
We've lived here for 38 years. This is where our kids were born, and this is my place. As far as I'm concerned, if I can't have this, I don't want anything.
consequences fishing obvious policy transport
Here we are with even the most obvious things like a fishing policy or a transport policy-we know what the consequences are.
horses sea solution
You know, we could say yes, they were about to exterminate sea horses and now they aren't... But it isn't a solution to the world's problems.
cockpit fellow funny last sat therefore travelled trip
My last trip was to the States, and on the way back I sat in the cockpit for take-off and landing. In a funny way, I think aircrew know that I've travelled a lot and therefore feel we are fellow professionals to some degree-which is nice, very complimentary.
middle ways
When I was right in the middle of Borneo, you thought you were in a different world. There was no radio, no ways of communicating.
atmosphere debate fact fossil individual less multitude present using
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.
advantage issue moral neither
Neither have I said we have got to do this because of some pharmaceutical advantage there may or may not be. The moral issue is that we should not impoverish this world.
air continues dependent food kinds natural provide richness
It's not just that we are dependent on the natural world for our food and for the very air we breathe-which is, of course, the case-and that the very richness of the natural world continues to provide us with all kinds of assistance.