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 AttenboroughYou can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural history programmes should be for.
David AttenboroughAll the modern devices we have enable us to investigate things and have enabled us to do better.
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