There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of staying alive.
David AttenboroughI'm luckier than my grandfather, who didn't move more than five miles from the village in which he was born.
David AttenboroughChildren start off reading in books about lions and giraffes and so on, but they also-if theyre lucky enough and have reasonable privileges of any human being-are able to go into a garden and turn over stone and see a worm and see a slug and see an ant.
David AttenboroughIf I were beginning my career today, I don't think I would take the same direction. Television is at a crossroads at the moment. And although I am not up to date technologically, I suspect that somewhere out there people are conveying things about natural history by means other than television, and I think if I were beginning today, I'd be there.
David Attenborough