About David Attenborough: Sir David Frederick Attenborough is an English broadcaster and naturalist.
You can cry about death and very properly so, your own as well as anybody else's. But it's inevitable, so you'd better grapple with it and cope and be aware that not only is it inevitable, but it has always been inevitable, if you see what I mean.
All our environmental problems become easier to solve with fewer people and harder - and ultimately impossible to solve - with ever more people.
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.
Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English.
I'm swanning round the world looking at the most fabulously interesting things. Such good fortune.
We are not overpopulated in an absolute sense; we've got the technology for 10 billion, probably 15 billion people, to live on this planet and live good lives. What we haven't done is developed our technology.
The climate suits me, and London has the greatest serious music that you can hear any day of the week in the world - you think it's going to be Vienna or Paris or somewhere, but if you go to Vienna or Paris and say, 'Let's hear some good music', ther...
Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on a license which is not the same as a government grant.
I'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.
People 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.
To 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.
The whole of science, and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man, is trying to come to terms with the relationship between yourself and the natural world. Why are you here, and how do you fit in, and what's it all about.
If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in life is to pass on their genes to the next generation.
I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?
The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between it and millions of other species of both animals and plants.
It is that range of biodiversity that we must care for - the whole thing - rather than just one or two stars.
People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile.
Crying wolf is a real danger.
If I can bicycle, I bicycle.
