If I can make programmes when I’m 95, that would be fine. But I would think I’ll have had enough by then. David Attenborough Read Quote
If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you’re driven to the conclusion that their main aim in life is to pass on their genes to the next generation. David Attenborough Read Quote
You can cry about death and very properly so, your own as well as anybody else’s. But it’s inevitable, so you’d better grapple with it and cope and be aware that not only is it inevitable, but it has always been inevitable, if you see what I mean. David Attenborough Read Quote
The process of making natural history films is to try to prevent the animal knowing you are there, so you get glimpses of a non-human world, and that is a transporting thing. David Attenborough Read Quote
You have to steer a course between not appalling people, but at the same time not misleading them. David Attenborough Read Quote
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 Read Quote
We are not overpopulated in an absolute sense; we’ve got the technology for 10 billion, probably 15 billion people, to live on this planet and live good lives. What we haven’t done is developed our technology. David Attenborough Read Quote
London has fine museums, the British Library is one of the greatest library institutions in the world… It’s got everything you want, really. David Attenborough Read Quote
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. David Attenborough Read Quote
