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David Attenborough (Presenter)

People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile.
— David Attenborough animals
It's coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It's not just climate change; it's sheer space, places to grow food for this enormous horde. Either we limit our population growth or the natural world will do it for us, and the natural world is doing it for us right now.
— David Attenborough change
It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.
— David Attenborough life
Crying wolf is a real danger.
— David Attenborough anger
There is no question that climate change is happening; the only arguable point is what part humans are playing in it.
— David Attenborough art
Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone in the world, as universal as a bird?
— David Attenborough world
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?
— David Attenborough children
Dealing with global warming doesn't mean we have all got to suddenly stop breathing. Dealing with global warming means that we have to stop waste, and if you travel for no reason whatsoever, that is a waste.
— David Attenborough war
It is that range of biodiversity that we must care for - the whole thing - rather than just one or two stars.
— David Attenborough stars
There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of staying alive.
— David Attenborough world
People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.
— David Attenborough men
The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between it and millions of other species of both animals and plants.
— David Attenborough men
I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.
— David Attenborough world
Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English.
— David Attenborough time
I don't think we are going to become extinct. We're very clever and extremely resourceful - and we will find ways of preserving ourselves, of that I'm sure. But whether our lives will be as rich as they are now is another question.
— David Attenborough live
An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment.
— David Attenborough men
I can mention many moments that were unforgettable and revelatory. But the most single revelatory three minutes was the first time I put on scuba gear and dived on a coral reef. It's just the unbelievable fact that you can move in three dimensions.
— David Attenborough time
Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.
— David Attenborough success
If I can bicycle, I bicycle.
— David Attenborough
The most extraordinary thing about trying to piece together the missing links in the evolutionary story is that when you do find a missing link and put it in the story, you suddenly need all these other missing links to connect to the new discovery. The gaps and questions actually increase - it's extraordinary.
— David Attenborough evolution
I'm not an animal lover if that means you think things are nice if you can pat them, but I am intoxicated by animals.
— David Attenborough love
Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know them. And yet they inhabit a world which is really rather mysterious.
— David Attenborough world
We keep putting on programmes about famine in Ethiopia; that's what's happening. Too many people there. They can't support themselves - and it's not an inhuman thing to say. It's the case. Until humanity manages to sort itself out and get a coordinated view about the planet it's going to get worse and worse.
— David Attenborough people
Being in touch with the natural world is crucial.
— David Attenborough world
I'm swanning round the world looking at the most fabulously interesting things. Such good fortune.
— David Attenborough world

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