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.
Today on the way home, it snows. Big, soft caressing flakes fall onto our skin like cold moths; the air fills with feathers.
Throb thine with Nature's throbbing breast.
The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss
No longer conscious of my movement, I discovered a new unity with nature. I had found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never dreamt existed.
The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.
Water is the exile, carried back in cans and flasks, the ghost between your hands and your mouth.
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