David Attenborough

I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how animals work. ↗

— David Attenborough

#i #interest #just #just looking #looking

I'm not in politics. ↗

— David Attenborough

#politics

If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in life is to pass on their genes to the next generation. ↗

— David Attenborough

#any #conclusion #driven #generation #genes

It is vital that there is a narrator figure whom people believe. That's why I never do commercials. If I started saying that margarine was the same as motherhood, people would think I was a liar. ↗

— David Attenborough

#commercials #figure #i #liar #motherhood

It was regarded as a responsibility of the BBC to provide programs which have a broad spectrum of interest, and if there was a hole in that spectrum, then the BBC would fill it. ↗

— David Attenborough

#broad #fill #hole #interest #programs

It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species. ↗

— David Attenborough

#exterminate #moral #question #right #species

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. ↗

— David Attenborough

#come #doing #economics #individuals #many

Natural history is not about producing fables. ↗

— David Attenborough

#fables #history #natural #natural history #producing

Nature isn't positive in that way. It doesn't aim itself at you. It's not being unkind to you. ↗

— David Attenborough

#being #itself #nature #positive #unkind

People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile. ↗

— David Attenborough

#animal #care #conservation #going #people