David Attenborough Quotes


No one will protect what they don't care about, and no one will care about what they have never experienced.


Citations

Attenborough, David. Life on Air: Memoirs of a Broadcaster. BBC Books, 2002.

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His lesson was that in order to have a society that will protect animals, we must first enable citizens to know about the animals and then to love the animals.


He was talking about teh importance of getting people to learn about and know birds and other wildlife so then they would be enviornmentally conscious by wanting to take care of the wildlife. However, this quotation has much more generality, in that this characeristic of human nature seems to apply to immigrants, people of different religions and even of different polarized political subgroups. Contact with and knowing others tends to induce empathy, care, concern adn love.


David Attenborough
David Attenborough
  • Born: May 8, 1926
  • Nationality: British
  • Profession: Broadcaster, Naturalist, Presenter

Sir David Frederick Attenborough is an English broadcaster and natural historian. He is best known for writing and presenting, in conjunction with the BBC Natural History Unit, the nine natural history documentary series forming the Life collection that together constitute a comprehensive survey of animal and plant life on Earth. He is a former senior manager at the BBC, having served as controller of BBC Two and director of programming for BBC Television in the 1960s and 1970s. He is the only person to have won BAFTAs for programmes in each of black and white, colour, HD, 3D and 4K.