David Attenborough

It is curiosity, quite right-a divine curiosity. A characteristic of the gods is curiosity.

It is curiosity, quite right-a divine curiosity. A characteristic of the gods is curiosity.

I remember sleeping in places that were infested with rats and waking up with one trundling over my face. Actually, read more

I remember sleeping in places that were infested with rats and waking up with one trundling over my face. Actually, I hate rats! In my time, I've picked up all sorts of things in hotels-fleas, lice, tapeworm.

Neither have I said we have got to do this because of some pharmaceutical advantage there may or may not read more

Neither have I said we have got to do this because of some pharmaceutical advantage there may or may not be. The moral issue is that we should not impoverish this world.

Children start off reading in books about lions and giraffes and so on, but they also-if they're lucky enough and read more

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.

It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; read more

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.