“People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and ...” — David Attenborough Quote

“People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.”

“The more you go on, the less you need people standing between you and the animal and the camera waving their arms about.”

“You have to steer a course between not appalling people, but at the same time not misleading them.”

“The human bird shall take his first flight, filling the world with amazement, all writings with his fame, and bringing eternal glory to the nest whence he sprang.”

“When I write, I feel that I'm writing with my intellect. When I paint, I think it's some other force making me paint. I - as I wrote in my novel 'My Name is Red' - watch with amazement what my hand is doing on the paper, what kind of line, what kind of strange, beautiful thing it's doing in spite of my will, so to speak.”