David Attenborough best Environmental Quotes – “All we can hope for is that the thing is going to slowly and imperceptibly shift. All I can say is that 50 years ago there were no such thing as environmental policies.”
David Attenborough best Environmental Quotes – “All our environmental problems become easier to solve with fewer people and harder – and ultimately impossible to solve – with ever more people.”
David Attenborough best Environmental Quotes – “It’s coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It’s not just climate change; it’s sheer space, places to grow food for this enormous horde. Either we limit our population growth or the natural world will do it for us, and the natural world is doing it for us right now.”
David Attenborough best Death Quotes – “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 best Change Quotes – “Many 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.”
David Attenborough best Chance Quotes – “I don’t like rats, but there’s not much else I don’t like. The problem with rats is they have no fear of human beings, they’re loaded with foul diseases, they would run the place given half the chance, and I’ve had them leap out of a lavatory while I’ve been sitting on it.”
David Attenborough best Car Quotes – “I don’t run a car, have never run a car. I could say that this is because I have this extremely tender environmentalist conscience, but the fact is I hate driving.”
David Attenborough best Beauty Quotes – “It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.”
David Attenborough best Amazing Quotes – “Apart from anything else, I am designed by evolution, like we all are: if we see a little thing like that, big eyes, tiny nose, we go ‘aaah’. That’s what evolution does. We are programmed to do that. So to find babies the most amazing, isn’t surprising, I don’t think.”
David Attenborough best Amazing Quotes – “People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.”