Crying wolf is a real danger.
From David Attenborough
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.
All our environmental problems become easier to solve with fewer people and harder - and ultimately impossible to solve - with ever more people.
I think we're lucky to be living when we are, because things are going to get worse.
London has fine museums, the British Library is one of the greatest library institutions in the world... It's got everything you want, really.
If I can bicycle, I bicycle.
It is vital that there is a narrator figure whom people believe. That's why I never do commercials. If I started saying that margarine was the same as motherhood, people would think I was a liar.
I don't like rats, but there's not much else I don't like. The problem with rats is they have no fear of human beings, they're loaded with foul diseases, they would run the place given half the chance, and I've had them leap out of a lavatory while I've been sitting on it.
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?
I don't think we are going to become extinct. We're very clever and extremely resourceful - and we will find ways of preserving ourselves, of that I'm sure. But whether our lives will be as rich as they are now is another question.
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