Its about cherishing the woodland at the bottom of your garden or the stream that runs through it. It affects every aspect of life. David Attenborough More Quotes by David Attenborough More Quotes From David Attenborough Natural history is not about producing fables. David Attenborough natural-history fables natural 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 rhinos animal way Dealing with global warming doesn't mean we have all got to suddenly stop breathing. Dealing with global warming means that we have to stop waste, and if you travel for no reason whatsoever, that is a waste. David Attenborough breathing waste mean 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 offering children thinking At a time when it's possible for thirty people to stand on the top of Everest in one day, Antarctica still remains a remote, lonely and desolate continent. A place where it's possible to see the splendours and immensities of the natural world at its most dramatic and, what's more, witness them almost exactly as they were, long, long before human beings ever arrived on the surface of this planet. Long may it remain so. David Attenborough lonely long people I've been to Nepal, but I'd like to go to Tibet. It must be a wonderful place to go. I don't think there's anything there, but it would be a nice place to visit. David Attenborough nice would-be thinking It is curiosity, quite right-a divine curiosity. A characteristic of the gods is curiosity. David Attenborough characteristics curiosity divine I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how animals work. David Attenborough interest animal trying 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 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 way thinking 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 looks thinking No, not a feminist. I'm a humanist. I'm neither one side nor the other. David Attenborough feminist humanist sides You'll find people where their conditions aren't changing in any way, its rather rare for them to be happy. David Attenborough conditions people way I think the most alarming animals I have encountered are really poisonous snakes. David Attenborough snakes animal thinking You have to steer a course between not appalling people, but at the same time not misleading them. David Attenborough steers courses people 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 tomorrow faces 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 monopoly government television One in eight plant species face extinction. David Attenborough extinction environmental eight Now, I find that very difficult to reconcile with notions about a merciful God. David Attenborough notion difficult god When I was a boy in the 1930s, the carbon dioxide level was still below 300 parts per million. This year, it reached 382, the highest figure for hundreds of thousands of years. David Attenborough levels boys years
