Latest David Attenborough Quotes from Interviews

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• Fundamentally not to waste energy. If we were all to reduce our demands for energy, it would make an enormous amount of difference.

  David Attenborough

  Differences, Energy, Demand

  Source: www.lagoonsociety.com

• I suppose happiness is something one enjoys, but I suspect that happiness is not a state but rather a transition.

  David Attenborough

  Transition, States, Enjoy

  Source: www.lagoonsociety.com

• The only acceptable way to solve ecological problems is if you can persuade people to have fewer children. In the Victorian times, there were families of 15 children. Someone like Edward Lear, he was the last of 21 children. And so what we have to think about is offering people the alternative choice. And in the West, that's what's happening. The birth rate has been dropping steadily and still is. I'm wanting human beings to be better off so they don't view children as an insurance for the future.

  David Attenborough

  Children, Thinking, Offering

  Source: www.lagoonsociety.com

• 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. But humanity is facing a very big, slow, long, drawn-out threat, and that is to do with the way the weather is changing and the size of the population.

  David Attenborough

  Weather, Long, Humanity

  Source: www.lagoonsociety.com

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

  David Attenborough

  Sides, Humanist

  Source: www.lagoonsociety.com

• I would love to see a giant squid. Very few people have seen them. And only about half a dozen people have seen one alive.

  David Attenborough

  Squids, People, Giants

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

• If we were all to reduce our demands for energy, it would make an enormous amount of difference.

  David Attenborough

  Differences, Energy, Demand

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

• I would love to go and see the Himalayan Mountain Kingdoms. There are very few left now. I would loved to have gone to Tibet and Nepal. And there are still parts of central Asia that are utterly unexplored.

  David Attenborough

  Mountain, Gone, Kingdoms

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

• No, not a feminist. I'm a humanist. I'm neither one side nor the other.

  David Attenborough

  Feminist, Sides, Humanist

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

• 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.

• 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.

• Terrorism is an immediate problem that people are very concerned about, and I am as concerned about that as anyone else. But it isn't an either or situation.

  David Attenborough

  People, Problem, Terrorism

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

• All the modern devices we have enable us to investigate things and have enabled us to do better.

  David Attenborough

  Modern, Devices

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

• I suspect that happiness is not a state but rather a transition.

  David Attenborough

  Transition, States, Suspects

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

• You'll discover in countries where women have control over their own bodies, where they have education, where they have birth control, where they have facilities and where they are literate, when those things happen, the birth rate falls.

  David Attenborough

  Country, Fall, Birth Rate

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

• Humanity is facing a very big, slow, long, drawn-out threat, and that is to do with the way the weather is changing and the size of the population.

  David Attenborough

  Weather, Long, Humanity

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

• The nature of human beings is that they'd far rather face the disaster that is happening tonight than the one that is happening tomorrow.

  David Attenborough

  Tonight, Faces, Tomorrow

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

• 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.

• I've never actually met one in the wild, but I have seen a king cobra. They go towards people, they rear up six feet tall and they're very aggressive and they are very fast. And one bite means certain death. So if I encountered a king cobra in the wild I would be very alarmed.

  David Attenborough

  Kings, Mean, Feet

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

• 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.