David Attenborough Quotes About Environment

Quotes about: Environment

• 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

  Beauty, Nature, Earth Day

• 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

  Nature, Earth Day, Understanding

  "The Sum of You: Teach Yourself" by Alan Graham, Hachette UK, (p. 13), October 29, 2010.

• Instead of controlling the environment for the benefit of the population, perhaps we should control the population to ensure the survival of our environment

  David Attenborough

  Survival, Population, Benefits

• 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

  Animal, Rhinos, Way

• There's a small worm called Loa Loa Filariasis. This parasite can survive in one environment exclusively- namely, underneath the skin and inside the eyes of human beings. Children and the elderly in tropical regions (usually the poorest) are the most widely affected. A painful, slow death is virtually certain. The worm can actually live in the host for 17 years before the host finally dies.

  David Attenborough

  Children, Eye, Elderly

• We can now destroy or we can cherish-the choice is ours.

  David Attenborough

  Choices, Environment, Cherish

  "Planet Earth: Ocean Deep". TV Mini-Series, www.imdb.com. 2006.

• If we and the rest of the back-boned animals were to disappear overnight, the rest of the world would get on pretty well. But if the invertebrates were to disappear, the world's ecosystems would collapse

  David Attenborough

  Nature, Animal, Ecosystems

• ‎Using his burgeoning intelligence, this most successful of all mammals has exploited the environment to produce food for an ever increasing population. Instead of controlling the environment for the benefit of the population, perhaps it's time we controlled the population to allow the survival of the environment.

  David Attenborough

  Successful, Survival, Mammals

  "The Life of Mammals". Documentary, 2002.

• You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural history programmes should be for.

  David Attenborough

  Decision, Environment, Natural

• You've got to be fairly solemn [about the environment]. I mean the mere notion that there are three times as many people on Earth as there were when I started making television. How can the Earth accommodate them? When people, including politicians, set their faces against looking at the consequences-it's just unbelievable that anyone could ignore it.

  David Attenborough

  Mean, Science, People

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