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David Attenborough — Portrait after a picture by UK Government (OGL 3), via Wikimedia Commons.

The quotations of

David Attenborough

British broadcaster and naturalist

born 1926

5 quotes, most often on Nature and Animals.

We must change our diet. The planet can’t support billions of meat-eaters.
“Go vegetarian to save wildlife and the planet, Sir David Attenborough urges”. The Independent (26 August 2020)
- Food
- Nature
I’m not an animal lover if that means you think things are nice if you can pet them, but I am intoxicated by animals.
Interview in Metro 29 Jan 2013
- Animals
There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of staying alive. This is the story of how a few of them came to be as they are.
Life on Earth (1979), Opening narration
- Animals
- Nature
This is now our planet, run by humankind for humankind. There is little left for the rest of the living world.
David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet (Netflix, 2020)
- Nature
Our imprint is now truly global. Our impact now truly profound. Our blind assault on the planet has finally come to alter the very fundamentals of the living world.
David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet (Netflix, 2020)
- Nature

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