We are not overpopulated in an absolute sense; we've got the technology for 10 billion, probably 15 billion people, to live on this planet and live good lives. What we haven't done is developed our technology. -David Attenborough Technology
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. -David Attenborough Food
People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure. -David Attenborough Amazing
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 Life
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. -David Attenborough Home
I think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home. -David Attenborough Travel
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. -David Attenborough Environmental
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 Success
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. -David Attenborough Science
The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates; none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason to be optimistic. -David Attenborough Hope
I don't like rats, but there's not much else I don't like. The problem with rats is they have no fear of human beings, they're loaded with foul diseases, they would run the place given half the chance, and I've had them leap out of a lavatory while I've been sitting on it. -David Attenborough Fear
I like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. The travel bit is what you have to do in order to go and look at animals. -David Attenborough Travel
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. -David Attenborough History
I don't run a car, have never run a car. I could say that this is because I have this extremely tender environmentalist conscience, but the fact is I hate driving. -David Attenborough Car
All our environmental problems become easier to solve with fewer people and harder - and ultimately impossible to solve - with ever more people. -David Attenborough Environmental
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. -David Attenborough Space
All we can hope for is that the thing is going to slowly and imperceptibly shift. All I can say is that 50 years ago there were no such thing as environmental policies. -David Attenborough Environmental
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 Politics
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 History
