David Attenborough Quotes & Sayings (Page 7)

“Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that gives them a sixth sense of what the creature is going to do, so they can be ready to follow.”

“Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren't aware that you are not treating them with respect, the viewers are.”

“As far as I'm concerned, if there is a supreme being then He chose organic evolution as a way of bringing into existence the natural world... which doesn't seem to me to be necessarily blasphemous at all.”

“You know, it is a terrible thing to appear on television, because people think that you actually know what you're talking about.”

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

“I believe the Abominable Snowman may be real. I think there may be something in that.”

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

“If I can make programmes when I'm 95, that would be fine. But I would think I'll have had enough by then.”

“Natural history is not about producing fables.”

“The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates; none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason to be optimistic.”