David Attenborough World Quotations

London has fine museums, the British Library is one of the greatest library institutions in the world... It's got everything you want, really.

Being in touch with the natural world is crucial.

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.

I'm swanning round the world looking at the most fabulously interesting things. Such good fortune.

The World is full of wonders, but they become more Wonderful, not less Wonderful when Science looks at them.

If we [humans] disappeared overnight, the world would probably be better off.

Clearly we could devastate the world... as far as we know, the Earth is the only place in the universe where there is life. Its continued survival now rests in our hands

The human population can no longer be allowed to grow in the same old uncontrollable way. If we do not take charge of our population size, then nature will do it for us and it is the poor people of the world who will suffer most

If we and the rest of the back-boned animals were to disappear overnight, the rest of the world would get on pretty well. But if the invertebrates were to disappear, the world's ecosystems would collapse

Birds are the most accomplished aeronauts the world has ever seen. They fly high and low, at great speed, and very slowly. And always with extraordinary precision and control.

How could I look my grandchildren in the eye and say I knew what was happening to the world and did nothing.

In the West, that's what's happening. The birth rate has been dropping steadily and still is. But there is still a vast amount of the world where that's not the case. And that is where the big population growth is taking place.

Warm-bloodedness is one of the key factors that have enabled mammals to conquer the Earth, and to develop the most complex bodies in the animal kingdom. In this series, we will travel the world to discover just how varied and how astonishing mammals are.

Nothing in the natural world makes sense - except when seen in the light of evolution