Cameramen 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 notion of ever more old people needing ever more young people, who will in turn grow old and need even more young people, and so on ad infinitum, is an obvious ecological Ponzi scheme.
David AttenboroughWe keep putting on programmes about famine in Ethiopia; thatโs whatโs happening. Too many people there. They canโt support themselves โ and itโs not an inhuman thing to say. Itโs the case. Until humanity manages to sort itself out and get a coordinated view about the planet itโs going to get worse and worse.
David AttenboroughThe climate suits me, and London has the greatest serious music that you can hear any day of the week in the world - you think it's going to be Vienna or Paris or somewhere, but if you go to Vienna or Paris and say, 'Let's hear some good music', there isn't any.
David AttenboroughThis last chapter .. may have given the impression that somehow man is the ultimate triumph of evolution, that all these millions of years of development have had no purpose other than to put him on earth. There is no scientific evidence whatever to support such a view and no reason to suppose that our stay here will be any more permanent than that of the dinosaur.
David Attenborough