I'm luckier than my grandfather, who didn't move more than five miles from the village in which he was born.
David AttenboroughPeople talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly clearly. Periodic famines are due to too many people living on land that can't sustain them.
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 AttenboroughWe keep putting on programmes about famine in Ethiopia; thatโs whatโs happening. Too many people there. They canโt support themselves โ and itโs not an inhuman thing to say. Itโs the case. Until humanity manages to sort itself out and get a coordinated view about the planet itโs going to get worse and worse.
David Attenborough