Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

David Attenborough
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: May 8
Actor
Autobiographer
Biologist
Broadcaster
Director
Environmentalist
Film Director
Journalist
Naturalist
Presenter
Screenwriter
London
England
Sir David Attenborough
David Frederick Attenborough
Sir David Frederick Attenborough
Absolutely
Astounded
Balance
Pumping
Growth
Valid
Changed
Denial
Courses
Hadn
Course
Atmosphere
Stuff
Population
Would
Argument
Climatic

More quotes by David Attenborough

Image
Humanity is facing a very big, slow, long, drawn-out threat, and that is to do with the way the weather is changing and the size of the population.
David Attenborough
Image
I'd like to see the giant squid. Nobody has ever seen one. I could tell you people who have spent thousands and thousands of pounds trying to see giant squid. I mean, we know they exist because we have seen dead ones. But I have never seen a living one. Nor has anybody else.
David Attenborough
Image
Very few species have survived unchanged. There's one called lingula, which is a little shellfish, a little brachiopod about the size of my fingernail, that has survived for 500 million years, but it's survived by being unobtrusive and doing nothing, and you can't accuse human beings of that.
David Attenborough
Image
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
Image
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
Image
All life is related. And it enables us to construct with confidence the complex tree that represents the history of life
David Attenborough
Image
All our environmental problems become easier to solve with fewer people and harder - and ultimately impossible to solve - with ever more people.
David Attenborough
Image
Now, I find that very difficult to reconcile with notions about a merciful God.
David Attenborough
Image
I think the most alarming animals I have encountered are really poisonous snakes.
David Attenborough
Image
I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.
David Attenborough
Image
The climate suits me, and London has the greatest serious music that you can hear any day of the week in the world - you think it's going to be Vienna or Paris or somewhere, but if you go to Vienna or Paris and say, 'Let's hear some good music', there isn't any.
David Attenborough
Image
Since when has Finland been a rotten place to live in?
David Attenborough
Image
I have no doubt that the fundamental problem the planet faces is the enormous increase in the human population
David Attenborough
Image
You'll discover in countries where women have control over their own bodies, where they have education, where they have birth control, where they have facilities and where they are literate, when those things happen, the birth rate falls.
David Attenborough
Image
Nothing in the natural world makes sense - except when seen in the light of evolution
David Attenborough
Image
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?
David Attenborough
Image
I'm not over-fond of animals. I am merely astounded by them.
David Attenborough
Image
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
Image
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
Image
Until humanity manages to sort itself out and get a co-ordinated view about the planet, it's going to get worse and worse.
David Attenborough