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David Attenborough


Born
in London, The United Kingdom
May 08, 1926

Genre
Outdoors & Nature, Nonfiction


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 ...more

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Average rating: 4.43 · 61,067 ratings · 6,123 reviews · 156 distinct works • Similar authors
A Life on Our Planet: My Wi...
4.50 avg rating — 32,188 ratings — published 2020 — 76 editions
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Adventures of a Young Natur...
4.27 avg rating — 5,481 ratings — published 2017 — 31 editions
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Life on Earth
4.46 avg rating — 4,751 ratings — published 1979 — 75 editions
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Life on Air: Memoirs of a B...
4.40 avg rating — 4,398 ratings — published 2002 — 39 editions
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The Living Planet
4.35 avg rating — 1,852 ratings — published 1984 — 49 editions
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The Life of Birds
4.40 avg rating — 1,618 ratings — published 1998 — 25 editions
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Journeys to the Other Side ...
4.32 avg rating — 1,317 ratings — published 2018 — 14 editions
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The Trials of Life
4.28 avg rating — 1,025 ratings — published 1990 — 43 editions
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The Life of Mammals
4.39 avg rating — 992 ratings — published 2002 — 7 editions
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Life Stories
4.37 avg rating — 937 ratings — published 2009 — 9 editions
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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 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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“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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