“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.”
– David Attenborough
“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.”
– David Attenborough
“There is no question that climate change is happening the only arguable point is what part humans are playing in it.”
– David Attenborough
“It’s coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It’s not just climate change it’s sheer space, places to grow food for this enormous horde. Either we limit our population growth or the natural world will do it for us, and the natural world is doing it for us right now.”
– David Attenborough
“Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.”
– David Attenborough
“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.”
– David Attenborough
“It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement the greatest source of visual beauty the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.”
– David Attenborough
“People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.”
– David Attenborough