David Attenborough - Talking to a Great Broadcaster Quotes

“The flower economy is based on nectar.”
― Gareth Huw Davies, David Attenborough - Talking to a Great Broadcaster

“The BBC's flagship natural history programme, was first shown in 1977, with The Bird That Beat The US Navy.”
― Gareth Huw Davies, David Attenborough - Talking to a Great Broadcaster

“We only see a tiny fraction of that creature’s existence. There is a huge amount of its life that we have no knowledge of.”
― Gareth Huw Davies, David Attenborough - Talking to a Great Broadcaster

“Attenborough's role was more fundamental. He launched the strand in 1968, when he was head of BBC2.”
― Gareth Huw Davies, David Attenborough - Talking to a Great Broadcaster

“Most plants take their nourishment intravenously, miraculously served up in molecule-sized morsels by leaf and root.”
― Gareth Huw Davies, David Attenborough - Talking to a Great Broadcaster

“Living Planet, and spent another three years exploring the Earth’s environments and the way way plants and animals adapt to their surroundings.”
― Gareth Huw Davies, David Attenborough - Talking to a Great Broadcaster

“Life on Earth, took three years to make. First shown in 1979,”
― Gareth Huw Davies, David Attenborough - Talking to a Great Broadcaster

“The standard nature film had been a staid biography of an animal, or the story of a habitat told throughout a year.”
― Gareth Huw Davies, David Attenborough - Talking to a Great Broadcaster

“Modesty is one of his endearing qualities.”
― Gareth Huw Davies, David Attenborough - Talking to a Great Broadcaster

“His autobiography is Life on Air: Memoirs of a Broadcaster.”
― Gareth Huw Davies, David Attenborough - Talking to a Great Broadcaster

“In 1952 he joined the BBC.”
― Gareth Huw Davies, David Attenborough - Talking to a Great Broadcaster

“Sir David was born in London but grew up in Leicester,”
― Gareth Huw Davies, David Attenborough - Talking to a Great Broadcaster

“He is the consummate professional, but never pompous or arrogant, and always ready to oblige and assist the production team, and credit them for their efforts.”
― Gareth Huw Davies, David Attenborough - Talking to a Great Broadcaster