David Attenborough quotes
My last trip was to the States, and on the way back I sat in the cockpit for take-off and landing. In a funny way, I think aircrew know that I've travelled a lot and therefore feel we are fellow professionals to some degree-which is nice, very complimentary.
All we can hope for is that the thing is going to slowly and imperceptibly shift. All I can say is that 50 years ago there were no such thing as environmental policies.
An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment.
Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel.
Being in touch with the natural world is crucial.
Changing the way we measure things is vital. So is decompartmentalising society-making sure that economics and politics are not divorced from other crucial areas of life.
Children start off reading in books about lions and giraffes and so on, but they also-if they're lucky enough and have reasonable privileges of any human being-are able to go into a garden and turn over stone and see a worm and see a slug and see an ant.
Crying wolf is a real danger.
Getting to places like Bangkok or Singapore was a hell of a sweat. But when you got there it was the back of beyond. It was just a series of small tin sheds.
Here we are with even the most obvious things like a fishing policy or a transport policy-we know what the consequences are.
Homosapiens is a compulsive communicator. Look at the number of people you see walking around talking on mobile phones. We seem to have an infinite capacity for communicating and being communicated with.
I asked the airline staff what I was going to do with all the animals as I didn't have any food for them. They were very unhelpful.
I do an awful lot of appearances, and to have one person always grinding the same axe would not be a good idea.
I don't approve of sunbathing, and it's bad for you.
I don't run a car, have never run a car. I could say that this is because I have this extremely tender environmentalist conscience, but the fact is I hate driving.
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