David Attenborough

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May 08, 1926 in London, The United Kingdom

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Outdoors & Nature, Nonfiction

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Sir David Frederick Attenborough is a naturalist and broadcaster, who is most well-known for writing and presenting the nine "Life" series, produced in conjunction with BBC's Natural History Unit. The series includes Life on Earth (1979), The Living Planet (1984), The Trials of Life (1990), Life in the Freezer (about Antarctica; 1993), The Private Life of Plants (1995), The Life of Birds (1998), The Life of Mammals (2002), Life in the Undergrowth (2005) and Life in Cold Blood (2008).

He is the younger brother of director and actor Richard Attenborough.

Photo credit: Wildscreen's photograph of David Attenborough at ARKive's launch in Bristol, England © May 2003

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Average rating: 4.28 · 1,694 ratings · 177 reviews · 36 distinct works

	David Attenborough: Life on Air 4.33 avg rating — 354 ratings — published 2002 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Life on Earth 4.35 avg rating — 278 ratings — published 1979 — 13 editions	My rating:
	The Life of Mammals 4.43 avg rating — 126 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Life of Birds 4.36 avg rating — 135 ratings — published 1998 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Private Life of Plants: A Natural History of Plant Behaviour 4.33 avg rating — 113 ratings — published 1994 — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Living Planet 4.23 avg rating — 128 ratings — 8 editions	My rating:
	Life in the Undergrowth 4.30 avg rating — 73 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Amazing Rare Things: The Art of Natural History in the Age of Discovery by David Attenborough, Susan Owens, Martin Clayton 3.93 avg rating — 86 ratings — published 2007 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Trials of Life: A Natural History of Animal Behavior 4.28 avg rating — 79 ratings — published 1990 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Life in Cold Blood 4.44 avg rating — 57 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:

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“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

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“I don't think whole populations are villainous, but Americans are just extraordinarily unaware of all kinds of things. If you live in the middle of that vast continent, with apparently everything your heart could wish for just because you were born there, then why worry? [...] If people lose knowledge, sympathy and understanding of the natural world, they're going to mistreat it and will not ask their politicians to care for it.”
― David Attenborough

tags: environmentalism , nature , science

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“I don’t know [why we're here]. People sometimes say to me, ‘Why don’t you admit that the humming bird, the butterfly, the Bird of Paradise are proof of the wonderful things produced by Creation?’ And I always say, well, when you say that, you’ve also got to think of a little boy sitting on a river bank, like here, in West Africa, that’s got a little worm, a living organism, in his eye and boring through the eyeball and is slowly turning him blind. The Creator God that you believe in, presumably, also made that little worm. Now I personally find that difficult to accommodate…”
― David Attenborough

tags: atheism , birds , christian , christianity , creation , god , nature , religion , worm

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