David Attenborough

There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of staying alive. ”

I'm against this huge globalisation on the basis of economic advantage. ”

Very few species have survived unchanged. There's one called lingula, which is a little shellfish, a little brachiopod about the size of my fingernail, that has survived for 500 million years, but it's survived by being unobtrusive and doing nothing, and you can't accuse human beings of that. ”

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. ”

Crying wolf is a real danger. ”

It is that range of biodiversity that we must care for - the whole thing - rather than just one or two stars. ”

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. ”

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 think we're lucky to be living when we are, because things are going to get worse. ”