#natur

Get that right, then- if you get the quality right, then the marketability or whatever; your ability to sell videos or your ability to earn money or whatever, will follow naturally. But try to be creatively lead rather than market lead. And that's important to me. ↗

— Rowan Atkinson

#creatively #earn #follow #get #important

We still have a tradition certainly in English television; it's faded a bit in the last five years, but we still have a tradition where the important thing is the quality and the challenging nature of the programming. ↗

— Rowan Atkinson

#certainly #challenging #english #faded #five

An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment. ↗

— David Attenborough

#fulfillment #great #natural #natural world #only

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. ↗

— David Attenborough

#although #am #beginning #career #conveying

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. ↗

— David Attenborough

#cardinal #days #fact #factual #history

It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living. ↗

— David Attenborough

#excitement #greatest #intellectual #interest #life

People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure. ↗

— David Attenborough

#amazement #beautiful #feel #important #must

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. ↗

— David Attenborough

#films #get #glimpses #history #human world

'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.' ↗

— W. H. Auden

#healing #intuitive #me #nature #papa

Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study. ↗

— Red Auerbach

#natural #need #plants #pruning #study