I think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home.
David AttenboroughPeople are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile.
David AttenboroughDo we really require so many gardening programmes, makeover programmes or celebrity chefs?
David AttenboroughIf we and the rest of the back-boned animals were to disappear overnight, the rest of the world would get on pretty well. But if the invertebrates were to disappear, the world's ecosystems would collapse
David AttenboroughI'm not an animal lover if that means you think things are nice if you can pat them, but I am intoxicated by 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