Natural history is not about producing fables.
Quote by David Attenborough
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Natural history is not about producing fables.
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David Attenborough Quotes
- Nature isn't positive in that way. It doesn't aim itself at you. It's not being unkind to you.
- 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.
- Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel.
- 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.
- In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn't use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes.
- 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.
- People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly clearly. Periodic famines are due to too many people living on land that can't sustain them.
- I like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. The travel bit is what you have to do in order to go and look at animals.
- People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.
- I had a huge advantage when I started 50 years ago - my job was secure. I didn't have to promote myself. These days there's far more pressure to make a mark, so the temptation is to make adventure television or personality shows. I hope the more didactic approach won't be lost.
Best Quotes
- I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.
- You feel sometimes when you hear analysts and knowledgeable people talking about Iran that they fear so much about the survival of the regime, because deep down it's not a legitimate regime, it doesn't represent the will of the people, it's kind of morphed into kind of a military theocracy.
- The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
- Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
- Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.
- We are special because we've been united not by a common race or ethnicity. We're bound together by common values. That family is the most important institution in society. That almighty God is the source of all we have.
- I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.
- When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family.
- There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.
- Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.