David AttenboroughI 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 h… ▶361Time
David AttenboroughNothing in the natural world makes sense - except when seen in the light of evolution362Love
David AttenboroughThe human population can no longer be allowed to grow in the same old uncontrollable way. If we do not take charge of our population size, then nature will do it for us and it is … ▶352Humanity
David AttenboroughThe most extraordinary thing about trying to piece together the missing links in the evolutionary story is that when you do find a missing link and put it in the story, you sudden… ▶374Reflection
David AttenboroughIn 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 opi… ▶363Truth
David AttenboroughHow could I look my grandchildren in the eye and say I knew what was happening to the world and did nothing.331Sadness
David AttenboroughCan a growing human population still leave space for wildlife?354HumanityLife
David AttenboroughTo suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can see. The Archbishop of Canterbury doesn't believe that. ✨ Davi… ▶332Love
David AttenboroughBirds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know them. And yet they inhabit a world which is really rather mysterious.365Thought
David AttenboroughI think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home.321ThoughtTime
David AttenboroughThe reverse side of the coin in having this extraordinary ability to go anywhere, is that no one anywhere is remote any more.322Sadness
David AttenboroughMany individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.322Politics
David AttenboroughThe 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 pl… ▶355Philosophy
David AttenboroughI believe the Abominable Snowman may be real. I think there may be something in that. ✨ Poll: Majority of Americans say JFK was killed as part of a conspiracy, rebrn.com. No… ▶312Thought
David AttenboroughI'm absolutely strict about it. When I land, I put my watch right, and I don't care what I feel like, I will go to bed at half past eleven. If that means going to bed early or lat… ▶346Time
David AttenboroughI'm swanning round the world looking at the most fabulously interesting things. Such good fortune. ✨ Sir David Attenborough warns against large families and predicts things … ▶368Philosophy
David AttenboroughWhat I am interested in with birds, just as I am with spiders or monkeys, is what they do and why they do it.379Politics
David AttenboroughI just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.357Philosophy
David AttenboroughIt 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 thi… ▶358HumanityThought
David AttenboroughWe 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 … ▶369Humanity
David AttenboroughAs 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 necess… ▶3710Life
David AttenboroughIf I can make programmes when I'm 95, that would be fine. But I would think I'll have had enough by then. ✨ The Time Out Interview, www.timeout.com. September 20, 2013.315ThoughtTime
David AttenboroughPeople must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.293Humanity
David AttenboroughThere are perfectly good independent small nations.327Humanity
David AttenboroughI don't know [why we're here]. People sometimes say to me, 'Why don't you admit that the humming bird, the butterfly, the Bird of Paradise are proof of the wonderful things produc… ▶305HumanityLifeThought
David AttenboroughI like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. The travel bit is what you have to do in order to go and look at animals.349Politics
David AttenboroughYou have to steer a course between not appalling people, but at the same time not misleading them.305HumanityTime
David AttenboroughBefore the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel.349Reading
David AttenboroughOne in eight plant species face extinction.327Sadness
David AttenboroughThe fact is that no species has ever had such wholesale control over everything on earth, living or dead, as we now have. That lays upon us, whether we like it or not, an awesome … ▶284DeathHopeLife
