Attenborough Quotes

You were never quite sure which were pickpockets or loose ladies. - David Attenborough

You know, we could say yes, they were about to exterminate sea horses and now they aren't... But it isn't a solution to the world's problems. - David Attenborough

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

You have to steer a course between not appalling people, but at the same time not misleading them. - David Attenborough

You don't meet many 5-year-olds who are not interested in a hedgehog or a stickleback. - David Attenborough

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

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

When I was right in the middle of Borneo, you thought you were in a different world. There was no radio, no ways of communicating. - David Attenborough

When Attenborough asked me to do Gandhi it was almost like stepping off one boat and stepping on to another, even though both boats are going at 60 miles per hour. - Ben Kingsley

What I am sad about is that there is now, in America, no equivalent to the art circuit. - Richard Attenborough