“If we [humans] disappeared overnight, the world would probably be better off.”
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Birthday: 8 May 1926
David Attenborough, Jane Goodall, Yvon Chounaird, Sylvia Earle, Paul Watson (BW with flower/crystal crowns mixed media/doodles) linked to a blog with their best quotes and my interpretation of them with links to their books, documentaries, podcasts, interviews and TedTalks. "best quote” as title of the blog. Edit summary to be 5 across only.
“People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.”
“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.”
“If we [humans] disappeared overnight, the world would probably be better off.”
“No, not a feminist. I’m a humanist. I’m neither one side nor the other. It’s about the human being. And wanting human beings to be better off so they don’t view children as an insurance for the future.”
“The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?”
"Surely we all have a responsibility to care for our Blue Planet. The future of humanity and indeed, all life on earth, now depends on us."
"It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. There is so much more out there than what connects to us."
"Real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics."
“Ever since we arrived on this planet as a species, we’ve cut them down, dug them up, burnt them and poisoned them. Today we’re doing so on a greater scale than ever.”
“A hundred years ago, there were one-and-a-half billion people on Earth. Now, over six billion crowd our fragile planet. But even so, there are still places barely touched by humanity.”
“If we [humans] disappeared overnight, the world would probably be better off.”
“No one will protect what they don’t care about, and no one will care about what they have never experienced.”
“We can now destroy or we can cherish, the choice is ours.”
“How could I look my grandchildren in the eye and say I knew what was happening to the world and did nothing.”“Being in touch with the natural world is crucial.” David Attenborough
“The fundamental issue is the moral issue.”
“Humanity is facing a very big, slow, long, drawn-out threat, and that is to do with the way the weather is changing and the size of the population.” David Attenborough
“Climate change will affect the whole of humanity.”
