The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason to be optimistic. – David Attenborough
People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly clearly. Periodic famines are due to too many people living on land that cant sustain them. – David Attenborough
The process of making natural history films is to try to prevent the animal knowing you are there, so you get glimpses of a non-human world, and that is a transporting thing. – David Attenborough
You can cry about death and very properly so, your own as well as anybody elses. But its inevitable, so youd better grapple with it and cope and be aware that not only is it inevitable, but it has always been inevitable, if you see what I mean. – David Attenborough