David Attenborough Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“Being in touch with the natural world is crucial.”

“I don't like rats, but there's not much else I don't like. The problem with rats is they have no fear of human beings, they're loaded with foul diseases, they would run the place given half the chance, and I've had them leap out of a lavatory while I've been sitting on it.”

“It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species.”

“I'm swanning round the world looking at the most fabulously interesting things. Such good fortune.”

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

“I would be absolutely astounded if population growth and industrialisation and all the stuff we are pumping into the atmosphere hadn't changed the climatic balance. Of course it has. There is no valid argument for denial.”

“All our environmental problems become easier to solve with fewer people and harder - and ultimately impossible to solve - with ever more people.”

“Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel.”

“I think we're lucky to be living when we are, because things are going to get worse.”

“The whole of science, and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man, is trying to come to terms with the relationship between yourself and the natural world. Why are you here, and how do you fit in, and what's it all about.”