If 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 AttenboroughI think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home.
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 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.
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