It is that range of biodiversity that we must care for - the whole thing - rather than just one or two stars.
David AttenboroughCameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that gives them a sixth sense of what the creature is going to do, so they can be ready to follow.
David AttenboroughThe correct scientific response to something that is not understood must always be to look harder for the explanation, not give up and assume a supernatural cause.
David AttenboroughNo one will protect what they don't care about, and no one will care about what they have never experienced.
David AttenboroughI 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