Best quotes by David Attenborough on People

Checkout quotes by David Attenborough on People

  • It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us about the first human being'. We are so self-obsessed with our own history. There is so much more out there than what connects to us.
    - David Attenborough
  • We keep putting on programmes about famine in Ethiopia; that's what's happening. Too many people there. They can't support themselves - and it's not an inhuman thing to say. It's the case. Until humanity manages to sort itself out and get a coordinated view about the planet it's going to get worse and worse.
    - David Attenborough
  • 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
  • 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.
    - David Attenborough
  • People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile.
    - David Attenborough
  • You know, it is a terrible thing to appear on television, because people think that you actually know what you're talking about.
    - David Attenborough