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.
Weβre too much ourselves. Afraid of letting go of what we are, in case we are nothing, and holding on so tight, we lose everything else.
I myself feel, and also tell other Buddhists that the question of Nirvana will come later._x000D_ There is not much hurry._x000D_ If in day to day life you lead a good life, honesty, with love,_x000D_ with compassion, with less selfishness,_x000D_ then automatically it will lead to Nirvana.
In a Town like Twin Peaks noone is innocent
The most alarming sign of the state of our society now is that our leaders have the courage to sacrifice the lives of young people in war but have not the courage to tell us that we must be less greedy and wasteful.
And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being.
'What is' is more important than 'what should be.' Too many people are looking at 'what is' from a position of thinking 'what should be'.
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