Nature isn't positive in that way. It doesn't aim itself at you. It's not being unkind to you.
Quote by David Attenborough
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Nature isn't positive in that way. It doesn't aim itself at you. It's not being unkind to you.
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David Attenborough Quotes
- 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.
- The whole of science, and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man, is trying to come to terms with the relationship between yourself and the natural world. Why are you here, and how do you fit in, and what's it all about.
- 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.
- I'm not in politics.
- I think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home.
- Nature isn't positive in that way. It doesn't aim itself at you. It's not being unkind to you.
- 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.
- If I were beginning my career today, I don't think I would take the same direction. Television is at a crossroads at the moment. And although I am not up to date technologically, I suspect that somewhere out there people are conveying things about natural history by means other than television, and I think if I were beginning today, I'd be there.
- Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that gives them a sixth sense of what the creature is going to do, so they can be ready to follow.
- Dealing with global warming doesn't mean we have all got to suddenly stop breathing. Dealing with global warming means that we have to stop waste, and if you travel for no reason whatsoever, that is a waste.
Best Quotes
- When I joined Bill Clinton's start-up presidential campaign in 1991, I was confident that women would play an ever more important role, but I never gave a minute's thought to what would happen if we won. When we did - and I became the first woman to serve as White House press secretary - it changed my life. But it didn't change the world.
- I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.
- Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
- One of the rewards of success is freedom, the ability to do whatever you like.
- We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
- A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
- As I have said for many years throughout this land, we're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the future of human civilization. Every bit of that has to change.
- It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.
- We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights that our destinies are bound together that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.
- It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.