They always mean beautiful things like hummingbirds. I always reply by saying that I think of a little child in east Africa with a worm burrowing through his eyeball. The worm cannot live in any other way, except by burrowing through eyeballs. I find that hard to reconcile with the notion of a divine and benevolent creator.
David AttenboroughI'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how animals work.
David AttenboroughTo suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can see. The Archbishop of Canterbury doesn't believe that.
David AttenboroughI've been bitten by a python. Not a very big one. I was being silly, saying: 'Oh, it's not poisonous' Then, wallop! But you have fear around animals.
David AttenboroughThe World is full of wonders, but they become more Wonderful, not less Wonderful when Science looks at them.
David Attenborough