David Attenborough Quotes - Page 6

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• In the West, that's what's happening. The birth rate has been dropping steadily and still is. But there is still a vast amount of the world where that's not the case. And that is where the big population growth is taking place.

  David Attenborough

  Birth Rate, Growth, West

  "Sir David Attenborough interview: The one question about life that still baffles him". Interview with Jenn Selby, www.independent.co.uk. January 28, 2015.

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• You have to steer a course between not appalling people, but at the same time not misleading them.

  David Attenborough

  People, Courses, Steers

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• I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours of arrival.

  David Attenborough

  Australia, Suffering, Three

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• Nature isn't positive in that way. It doesn't aim itself at you. It's not being unkind to you.

  David Attenborough

  Way, Aim, Unkind

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• I am an ardent recycler. I would like to think that it works. I don't know whether it does or not.

  David Attenborough

  Thinking, Doe, Ardent

  "David Attenborough: 'I have been in a vehicle that was charged by a rhinoceros, and that was tiresome'" by Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. October 30, 2010.

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• If my grandchildren were to look at me and say, 'You were aware species were disappearing and you did nothing, you said nothing', that I think is culpable. I don't know how much more they expect me to be doing, I'd better ask them.

  David Attenborough

  Grandchildren, Thinking, Looks

  "David Attenborough: 'I'm an essential evil'". Interview with Susanna Rustin, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2011.

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• Climate change will affect the whole of humanity, while terrorist attacks will only affect a small section of humanity. Of course, you wouldn't say that if you were related to someone who had been beheaded or blown up or murdered.

  David Attenborough

  Humanity, Climate, Terrorist

  "Sir David Attenborough interview: The one question about life that still baffles him". Interview with Jenn Selby, www.independent.co.uk. January 28, 2015.

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• I don't approve of sunbathing, and it's bad for you.

  David Attenborough

  Appreciate, Sunbathing

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• It is vital that there is a narrator figure whom people believe. That's why I never do commercials. If I started saying that margarine was the same as motherhood, people would think I was a liar.

  David Attenborough

  Liars, Believe, Motherhood

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm luckier than my grandfather, who didn't move more than five miles from the village in which he was born.

  David Attenborough

  Moving, Grandfather, Village

  "Sir David Attenborough warns against large families and predicts things will only get worse" by James Meikle, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2013.

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• Warm-bloodedness is one of the key factors that have enabled mammals to conquer the Earth, and to develop the most complex bodies in the animal kingdom. In this series, we will travel the world to discover just how varied and how astonishing mammals are.

  David Attenborough

  Animal, Keys, Mammals

  "The Life of Mammals". Documentary, 2002 - 2003.

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• The reverse side of the coin in having this extraordinary ability to go anywhere, is that no one anywhere is remote any more.

  David Attenborough

  Coins, Sides, Ability

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• Now, I find that very difficult to reconcile with notions about a merciful God.

  David Attenborough

  God, Difficult, Notion

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• If I were beginning my career today, I don't think I would take the same direction. Television is at a crossroads at the moment. And although I am not up to date technologically, I suspect that somewhere out there people are conveying things about natural history by means other than television, and I think if I were beginning today, I'd be there.

  David Attenborough

  Mean, Thinking, Careers

  "David Attenborough: 'I have been in a vehicle that was charged by a rhinoceros, and that was tiresome'". Interview with Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. October 30, 2010.

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• 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

  Views, People, Support

  "David Attenborough - Humans are plague on Earth" by Louise Gray, www.telegraph.co.uk. January 22, 2013.

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• 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

  Clever, Thinking, Way

  "Sir David Attenborough warns against large families and predicts things will only get worse" by James Meikle, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2013.

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• You'll find people where their conditions aren't changing in any way, its rather rare for them to be happy.

  David Attenborough

  People, Way, Conditions

  "Sir David Attenborough interview: The one question about life that still baffles him". Interview with Jenn Selby, www.independent.co.uk. January 28, 2015.

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• I think the most alarming animals I have encountered are really poisonous snakes.

  David Attenborough

  Animal, Thinking, Snakes

  "The one question about life that still baffles him". Interview with Jenn Selby, www.independent.co.uk. January 28, 2015.

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• 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.

  David Attenborough

  Government, Television, Monopoly

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• In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn't use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes.

  David Attenborough

  Use, Facts, Opinion

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• The more you go on, the less you need people standing between you and the animal and the camera waving their arms about.

  David Attenborough

  Animal, People, Cameras

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• 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

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• I'm a humanist. I'm neither one side nor the other.

  David Attenborough

  Sides, Humanist

  Source: www.lagoonsociety.com

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• Since when has Finland been a rotten place to live in?

  David Attenborough

  Rotten, Finland, Places To Live

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• Getting to places like Bangkok or Singapore was a hell of a sweat. But when you got there it was the back of beyond. It was just a series of small tin sheds.

  David Attenborough

  Sweat, Tin, Hell

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