He is understood for its natural flicks and is epic as host of the BBC for more than 50 years. He is a previous elderly manager at the BBC, and also has actually functioned as controller of BBC 2, and as program director of BBC Television in 1960 and 70's. He remains in line with the Steve Irwin one of minority that have ended up being known for his enthusiasm for the animals' world as well as a burning desire to give their knowledge on.
In 1985 he was appointed Knight Bachelor for his work. He was knighted and was hence entitled to prosecute the form of Sir before his name. He has actually likewise been designated to a number of UK orders. In 1974 he was designated Commander of the Order of the British Empire, in 1991 as well as Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, and also in 1996 he was selected to the Order of the Companions of Honour. In 1995 he was granted the Order of Merit. Attenborough is a Fellow of the Royal Society as well as the Zoological Society of London.
He the middle of three brothers. The earliest brother is star and also director Richard Attenborough.
Our collection contains 32 quotes who is written / told by David, under the main topic Travel.
"I'm absolutely strict about it. When I land, I put my watch right, and I don't care what I feel like, I will go to bed at half past eleven. If that means going to bed early or late, that's what I live by. As soon as you get there, live by that time"
"Crying wolf is a real danger"
"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"
"Being in touch with the natural world is crucial"
"Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel"
"An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment"
"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"
"The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?"
"The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between it and millions of other species of both animals and plants"
"The fundamental issue is the moral issue"
"Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on a license which is not the same as a government grant"
"People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure"
"People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile"
"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"
"It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species"
"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"
"I think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home"
"I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours of arrival"
"I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see a wild creature from dawn 'til dusk, unless it's a pigeon, which isn't really wild, which might come and settle near them"
"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"
"I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored"
"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"
"I don't approve of sunbathing, and it's bad for you"
"Getting to places like Bangkok or Singapore was a hell of a sweat. But when you got there it was the back of beyond. It was just a series of small tin sheds"
"I've been to Nepal, but I'd like to go to Tibet. It must be a wonderful place to go. I don't think there's anything there, but it would be a nice place to visit"
"I'm not in politics"
"I'm against this huge globalisation on the basis of economic advantage"
"You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural history programmes should be for"
"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"
"It is that range of biodiversity that we must care for - the whole thing - rather than just one or two stars"
"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"
