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. David Attenborough Read Quote
You know, it is a terrible thing to appear on television, because people think that you actually know what you’re talking about. David Attenborough Read Quote
In 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 opinion. They were factual programmes. David Attenborough Read Quote
You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That’s what natural history programmes should be for. David Attenborough Read Quote
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. David Attenborough Read Quote
It 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 think I was a liar. David Attenborough Read Quote
I often get letters, quite frequently, from people who say how they like the programmes a lot, but I never give credit to the almighty power that created nature. David Attenborough Read Quote
There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of staying alive. David Attenborough Read Quote
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 Read Quote
