David Attenborough Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. We only know a tiny proportion about the complexity of the natural world. Wherever you look, there are still things we don’t know about and don’t understand. [...] There are always new things to find out if you go looking for them.

2. It seems that, however grave our mistakes, nature will be able to overcome them, given the chance. A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future

3. No one will protect what they don't care about; and no one will care about what they have never experiened

4. ‎Using his burgeoning intelligence, this most successful of all mammals has exploited the environment to produce food for an ever increasing population. Instead of controlling the environment for the benefit of the population, perhaps it's time we controlled the population to allow the survival of the environment.

5. We live our comfortable lives in the shadow of a disaster of our own making. That disaster is being brought about by the very things that allow us to live our comfortable lives. A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future

6. We only know a tiny proportion about the complexity of the natural world. Wherever you look, there are still things we don’t know about and don’t understand. [...] There are always new things to find out if you go looking for them.

7. When assessing family connections, the anatomy of a larva is obviously as valid a piece of evidence as that of an adult. Indeed, it is usually even more significant, for animals have the remarkable tendency to repeat during their individual development the stages through which their ancestors passed during evolutionary history. Life on Earth