Interview: David Attenborough
The Sunday Times, UK -
Organised, enthusiastic, engaged with the world: it’s what you’d expect, it’s what you hear in the voice. But, in him, it’s also old-fashioned, because he has none of that inane self-indulgence that makes almost all his television successors so irritating and unwatchable. His age, you see, is crucial. He was born in 1926 and his boyhood was passed in the 1930s, a simpler, freer time. “In those days, if you were 10 years old, you could get on a bicycle and cycle all over Leicestershire and Rutland and watch birds and dragonflies. Boys couldn’t do that now. You’re not allowed to collect birds’ eggs or pick flowers. I know all the reasons why that should be, and I don’t dispute them. But I did those things because they were what natural scientists had done for hundreds of years — for classification, working out relationships. I would hate to think I am being kind of sentimental, but, looking back, there was some kind of idyll. But I am well aware that the countryside changes. Of course, there were half the number of people on earth when I was born.”
2006-05-14
Interview: David Attenborough
The Sunday Times, UK -
Organised, enthusiastic, engaged with the world: it’s what you’d expect, it’s what you hear in the voice. But, in him, it’s also old-fashioned, because he has none of that inane self-indulgence that makes almost all his television successors so irritating and unwatchable. His age, you see, is crucial. He was born in 1926 and his boyhood was passed in the 1930s, a simpler, freer time. “In those days, if you were 10 years old, you could get on a bicycle and cycle all over Leicestershire and Rutland and watch birds and dragonflies. Boys couldn’t do that now. You’re not allowed to collect birds’ eggs or pick flowers. I know all the reasons why that should be, and I don’t dispute them. But I did those things because they were what natural scientists had done for hundreds of years — for classification, working out relationships. I would hate to think I am being kind of sentimental, but, looking back, there was some kind of idyll. But I am well aware that the countryside changes. Of course, there were half the number of people on earth when I was born.”
2006-05-13
Interview: David Attenborough
The Sunday Times, UK -
Organised, enthusiastic, engaged with the world: it’s what you’d expect, it’s what you hear in the voice. But, in him, it’s also old-fashioned, because he has none of that inane self-indulgence that makes almost all his television successors so irritating and unwatchable. His age, you see, is crucial. He was born in 1926 and his boyhood was passed in the 1930s, a simpler, freer time. “In those days, if you were 10 years old, you could get on a bicycle and cycle all over Leicestershire and Rutland and watch birds and dragonflies. Boys couldn’t do that now. You’re not allowed to collect birds’ eggs or pick flowers. I know all the reasons why that should be, and I don’t dispute them. But I did those things because they were what natural scientists had done for hundreds of years — for classification, working out relationships. I would hate to think I am being kind of sentimental, but, looking back, there was some kind of idyll. But I am well aware that the countryside changes. Of course, there were half the number of people on earth when I was born.”
2006-05-12
Interview: David Attenborough
The Sunday Times, UK -
Organised, enthusiastic, engaged with the world: it’s what you’d expect, it’s what you hear in the voice. But, in him, it’s also old-fashioned, because he has none of that inane self-indulgence that makes almost all his television successors so irritating and unwatchable. His age, you see, is crucial. He was born in 1926 and his boyhood was passed in the 1930s, a simpler, freer time. “In those days, if you were 10 years old, you could get on a bicycle and cycle all over Leicestershire and Rutland and watch birds and dragonflies. Boys couldn’t do that now. You’re not allowed to collect birds’ eggs or pick flowers. I know all the reasons why that should be, and I don’t dispute them. But I did those things because they were what natural scientists had done for hundreds of years — for classification, working out relationships. I would hate to think I am being kind of sentimental, but, looking back, there was some kind of idyll. But I am well aware that the countryside changes. Of course, there were half the number of people on earth when I was born.”
2006-05-07
Interview: David Attenborough
The Sunday Times, UK -
Organised, enthusiastic, engaged with the world: it’s what you’d expect, it’s what you hear in the voice. But, in him, it’s also old-fashioned, because he has none of that inane self-indulgence that makes almost all his television successors so irritating and unwatchable. His age, you see, is crucial. He was born in 1926 and his boyhood was passed in the 1930s, a simpler, freer time. “In those days, if you were 10 years old, you could get on a bicycle and cycle all over Leicestershire and Rutland and watch birds and dragonflies. Boys couldn’t do that now. You’re not allowed to collect birds’ eggs or pick flowers. I know all the reasons why that should be, and I don’t dispute them. But I did those things because they were what natural scientists had done for hundreds of years — for classification, working out relationships. I would hate to think I am being kind of sentimental, but, looking back, there was some kind of idyll. But I am well aware that the countryside changes. Of course, there were half the number of people on earth when I was born.”
2006-05-06
Interview: David Attenborough
The Sunday Times, UK -
Organised, enthusiastic, engaged with the world: it’s what you’d expect, it’s what you hear in the voice. But, in him, it’s also old-fashioned, because he has none of that inane self-indulgence that makes almost all his television successors so irritating and unwatchable. His age, you see, is crucial. He was born in 1926 and his boyhood was passed in the 1930s, a simpler, freer time. “In those days, if you were 10 years old, you could get on a bicycle and cycle all over Leicestershire and Rutland and watch birds and dragonflies. Boys couldn’t do that now. You’re not allowed to collect birds’ eggs or pick flowers. I know all the reasons why that should be, and I don’t dispute them. But I did those things because they were what natural scientists had done for hundreds of years — for classification, working out relationships. I would hate to think I am being kind of sentimental, but, looking back, there was some kind of idyll. But I am well aware that the countryside changes. Of course, there were half the number of people on earth when I was born.”
2006-05-05
Interview: David Attenborough
The Sunday Times, UK -
Organised, enthusiastic, engaged with the world: it’s what you’d expect, it’s what you hear in the voice. But, in him, it’s also old-fashioned, because he has none of that inane self-indulgence that makes almost all his television successors so irritating and unwatchable. His age, you see, is crucial. He was born in 1926 and his boyhood was passed in the 1930s, a simpler, freer time. “In those days, if you were 10 years old, you could get on a bicycle and cycle all over Leicestershire and Rutland and watch birds and dragonflies. Boys couldn’t do that now. You’re not allowed to collect birds’ eggs or pick flowers. I know all the reasons why that should be, and I don’t dispute them. But I did those things because they were what natural scientists had done for hundreds of years — for classification, working out relationships. I would hate to think I am being kind of sentimental, but, looking back, there was some kind of idyll. But I am well aware that the countryside changes. Of course, there were half the number of people on earth when I was born.”
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