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 1 Share Now -
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 2 Share Now -
People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure. - David Attenborough 3 Share Now -
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 4 Share Now -
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 5 Share Now -
I think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home. - David Attenborough 6 Share Now -
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 7 Share Now -
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 8 Share Now -
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 9 Share Now -
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 10 Share Now -
