David Attenboroughs most inspirational quotes and how hes fighting for the planet   Mirror Online
Sir David Attenborough has been making documentaries on the natural world for decades   and hes not done yet
He is a beloved national treasure and one of the most influential conservationists of our time.
, through his work on documentaries like Planet Earth and Blue Planet, has opened our eyes to show us just how much damage we have done to the natural world.
And despite being 92, Sir David is showing no signs of stopping as his latest program Our Planet airs on .
Last year Sir David said he would only stop broadcasting when he was no longer able to walk up and down steps or ceased to produce commentary with any freshness.
Here we take a look at some of Sir David andapos;s most inspirational quotes over his career...
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?
I andapos;m not an animal lover if that means you think things are nice if you can pat them, but I am intoxicated by animals.
Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know them. And yet they inhabit a world which is really rather mysterious.
I andapos;d like to see the giant squid. Nobody has ever seen one. I could tell you people who have spent thousands and thousands of pounds trying to see giant squid. I mean, we know they exist because we have seen dead ones. But I have never seen a living one. Nor has anybody else.
The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives. Because theres a mutual dependency between it and millions of other species.
Climate change
We really need to kick the carbon habit and stop making our energy from burning things. Climate change is also really important. You can wreck one rainforest then move, drain one area of resources and move onto another, but climate change is global.
Surely we have a responsibility to care for our planet. The future of humanity and indeed all life on earth, now depends on us.
Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.
Human destruction
Ever since we arrived on this planet as a species, weve cut them down, dug them up, burnt them and poisoned them. Today were doing so on a greater scale than ever.
If we disappeared overnight, the world would probably be better off.
It is, surely, our responsibility to do everything within our power to create a planet that provides a home not just for us, but for all life on Earth.
I would be absolutely astounded if population growth and industrialisation and all the stuff we are pumping into the atmosphere hadn andapos;t changed the climatic balance. Of course it has. There is no valid argument for denial.
Love of the natural world
It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty, the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.
In moments of great grief, thats where you look and immerse yourself. You realise you are not immortal, you are not a god, you are part of the natural world and you come to accept that.
An understanding of the natural world and what andapos;s in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment.
For years we thought the oceans were so vast and the inhabitants so infinitely numerous that nothing we could do could have an effect upon them. But now we know that was wrong.
It is now clear our actions are having a significant impact on the worlds oceans. They are under threat now as never before in human history. Many people believe the oceans have reached a crisis point.
I think, because the oceans are so vast and because they are so mysterious, there is a sense that somehow they are untouchable, and that what we do on land cannot really alter them in any meaningful way. Not true, sadly.
