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
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.
travel home journey
I think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home.
travel animal order
I like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. The travel bit is what you have to do in order to go and look at animals.
travel order navy
Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel.
travel mean past
I'm absolutely strict about it. When I land, I put my watch right, and I don't care what I feel like, I will go to bed at half past eleven. If that means going to bed early or late, that's what I live by. As soon as you get there, live by that time.
country travel mean
I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see a wild creature from dawn 'til dusk, unless it's a pigeon, which isn't really wild, which might come and settle near them.
travel good-times guilty
Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English.
travel wish half
I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.
amazingly gone last living places possibly privileged
I mean, one is living an amazingly privileged life. It's only been the last 20 or so years that one could have possibly gone to all the places you and I go to.
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.
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.
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?