#natur

As far as I'm concerned, if there is a supreme being then He chose organic evolution as a way of bringing into existence the natural world... which doesn't seem to me to be necessarily blasphemous at all. ↗

— David Attenborough

#being #bringing #chose #concerned #evolution

I often get letters, quite frequently, from people who say how they like the programmes a lot, but I never give credit to the almighty power that created nature. ↗

— David Attenborough

#created #credit #frequently #get #give

I like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. The travel bit is what you have to do in order to go and look at animals. ↗

— David Attenborough

#go #history #i #important #like

The whole of science, and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man, is trying to come to terms with the relationship between yourself and the natural world. Why are you here, and how do you fit in, and what's it all about. ↗

— David Attenborough

#any #between #come #fit #here

You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural history programmes should be for. ↗

— David Attenborough

#decisions #electorate #environment #get #history

Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#fools #makes #nature #only #owe

Life (like love) is forgiving and hopeful and, like a bold flower pushing out from the narrow crevice in a rock, will take any gap we allow. However small or large. ↗

— Sally Andrew

#nature #change

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#cannot #command #except #her #obeying

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#children #dark #fear #go #increased

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#nature #perfect #perfected #still #studies