People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the intrinsic value and beauty of the natural world, urging people to appreciate and protect it.
David Attenborough highlights the significance of recognizing and cherishing the beauty and wonder of the natural world. He suggests that a deep appreciation for nature is essential not only for enjoyment but also for the broader responsibility we have to preserve it. This connection to the natural environment can inspire people to recognize its importance and act towards its protection.
In practice
During a nature conservation meeting to emphasize the need for environmental awareness.
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.
The truth is, as most of us know, that global warming is real and humans are major contributors, mainly because we wastefully burn fossil fuels.
The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful.
The morning pouring everywhere, its golden glory on the air.
I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd, I stand and look at them long and long.
The facts of nature cannot in the long run be violated. Penetrating and seeping through everything like water, they will undermine any system that fails to take account of them, and sooner or later they will bring about its downfall. But an authority wise enough in its statesmanship to give sufficient free play to nature - of which spirit is a part - need fear no premature decline.
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