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Letter "D" » David Attenborough 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.»
Author: David Attenborough
«I remember sleeping in places that were infested with rats and waking up with one trundling over my face. Actually, I hate rats! In my time, I've picked up all sorts of things in hotels-fleas, lice, tapeworm.»
Author: David Attenborough
«An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment.»
Author: David Attenborough
«Children start off reading in books about lions and giraffes and so on, but they also-if they're lucky enough and have reasonable privileges of any human being-are able to go into a garden and turn over stone and see a worm and see a slug and see an ant. »
Author: David Attenborough
«People say we have all got to join Europe for reasons which even the economists themselves aren't clear on-at the same time we're saying, well yes of course Scotland has got to be independent. And why don't we make Wales independent too? And the north of England.»
Author: David Attenborough
«The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?»
Author: David Attenborough
«It is curiosity, quite right-a divine curiosity. A characteristic of the gods is curiosity.»
Author: David Attenborough
«It's lost on me. I can just about tell if it's got a jet engine or one of those funny things on the front!»
Author: David Attenborough
«Neither have I said we have got to do this because of some pharmaceutical advantage there may or may not be. The moral issue is that we should not impoverish this world.»
Author: David Attenborough
«Just recently we were coming out of Niger and it so happened that there was a great pilgrimage so all the hotels were full. We ended up sleeping on the floor in tin huts with bed bugs and fleas.»
Author: David Attenborough
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