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
arm bbc joined money rather regarded service television
I joined the BBC as a trainee. At first, the television service had no money and it was regarded as a rather raffish arm of the BBC.
gardening television chef
Do we really require so many gardening programmes, makeover programmes or celebrity chefs?
government television monopoly
Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on a license which is not the same as a government grant.
actual biology busy digest few history people sad seen sort
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.
natural next nor plant radical rats reduced within
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.
animals knew nocturnal people
People knew that animals were nocturnal but they didn't really know what they did because they couldn't see it.
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.
absolute billion developed good technology
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.
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.
change regard
Things change... I don't think we should regard change as a disaster.
environmental example hardly richmond
I'm especially involved, for example, in the Richmond Environmental Centre. That's one of those things you can hardly say no to.
capacity guilt thinking time
Oh, my capacity for guilt is enormous. I'm all the time thinking I'm not doing the things I should be doing, not doing enough of it, or I said I'd be vice-president of something or other, and what I have I done? Nothing.
company easy environmental oil setting spit sure
It's very easy to say everything is outrageous. But if you have an oil company that's setting up its own environmental department, for example, what do you do? Do you spit in its eye, or do you make sure that what they do actually has some substance?
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.