Do we really require so many gardening programmes, makeover programmes or celebrity chefs?
David AttenboroughThe climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates; none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason to be optimistic.
David AttenboroughThe more you go on, the less you need people standing between you and the animal and the camera waving their arms about.
David AttenboroughI like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. The travel bit is what you have to do in order to go and look at animals.
David AttenboroughI don't know [why we're here]. People sometimes say to me, 'Why don't you admit that the humming bird, the butterfly, the Bird of Paradise are proof of the wonderful things produced by Creation?' And I always say, well, when you say that, you've also got to think of a little boy sitting on a river bank, like here, in West Africa, that's got a little worm, a living organism, in his eye and boring through the eyeball and is slowly turning him blind. The Creator God that you believe in, presumably, also made that little worm. Now I personally find that difficult to accommodate.
David Attenborough