People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.
David AttenboroughHumanity is facing a very big, slow, long, drawn-out threat, and that is to do with the way the weather is changing and the size of the population.
David AttenboroughNothing in the natural world makes sense - except when seen in the light of evolution
David AttenboroughOpponents say natural selection is not a theory supported by observation or experiment; that it is not based on fact; and that it cannot be proved. Well, no, you cannot prove the theory to people who won't believe in it any more than you can prove that the Battle of Hastings took place in 1066. However, we know the battle happened then, just as we know the course of evolution on earth unambiguously shows that Darwin was right.
David Attenborough