I think we're lucky to be living when we are, because things are going to get worse.
Interpretation
David Attenborough reflects on the current state of the world, suggesting that despite challenges, our time holds unique opportunities.
In this quote, David Attenborough expresses a perspective that acknowledges the difficulties we face in contemporary society while emphasizing a sense of gratitude for the unique experiences of living in this era. He suggests that future challenges may intensify, yet there remains a sense of fortune in being able to navigate the present moment and its complexities. This recognition of both gratitude and foreboding encourages a mindful engagement with the world around us.
In practice
This quote can be shared during a discussion on environmental issues to highlight our responsibility to the future.
I don't think we are going to become extinct. We're very clever and extremely resourceful - and we will find ways of preserving ourselves, of that I'm sure. But whether our lives will be as rich as they are now is another question.
I'm against this huge globalisation on the basis of economic advantage.
I would be absolutely astounded if population growth and industrialisation and all the stuff we are pumping into the atmosphere hadn't changed the climatic balance. Of course it has. There is no valid argument for denial.
There's a small worm called Loa Loa Filariasis. This parasite can survive in one environment exclusively- namely, underneath the skin and inside the eyes of human beings. Children and the elderly in tropical regions (usually the poorest) are the most widely affected. A painful, slow death is virtually certain. The worm can actually live in the host for 17 years before the host finally dies.
The fundamental issue is the moral issue.
It is vital that there is a narrator figure whom people believe. That's why I never do commercials. If I started saying that margarine was the same as motherhood, people would think I was a liar.
What is 'grace'? It is God's own life, shared by us. God's life is love. Deus caritas est. By grace we are able to share in the infinitely selfless love of Him Who is such pure actuality that He needs nothing and therefore cannot conceivably exploit anything for selfish ends. Indeed, outside of Him there is nothing, and whatever exists exists by His free gift of its being, so that one of the notions that is absolutely contradictory to the perfection of God is selfishness.
Atheism is indeed the most daring of all dogmas . . . for it is the assertion of a universal negative.
Language is a virus from outer space.
You cannot overestimate the unimportance of practically everything.
People are lonely. The network is seductive. But if we are always on, we may deny ourselves the rewards of solitude.
Imagination is an almost divine faculty which, without recourse to any philosophical method, immediately perceives everything: the secret and intimate connections between things, correspondences and analogies.
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