I love him too, so very much. I think of him often, and am so grateful for the perspective he's helped me reach on the world around me. I'm similarly grateful for the things that you share here. Thank you for this article, and all the wonderful images and information you present.
I think the inspiration you derive from him comes through. You have a similar respect for the world around you as he does, and it's one of the things I've always found the most moving about his presentations and viewpoint. He's a good man, and has taught me some ways of thinking that make me a better woman. The things you share have a similar effect. So again, thank you.
And one of the things I don't want to do is to look at my grandchildren and hear them say: "Grandfather, you knew it was happening - and you did nothing."
As a child, I wanted to be David Attenborough. As a teen, I wanted to marry him; now trying to act upon the things he helped me learn to love is good enough for me. This man fed my biophilia at a time when the environment and those of us who populate it were not such a hot topic - it meant so much to me that there were at least some adults who noticed and cared about the same things as I did. And it still does. I saw the first part of this programme recently and it choked me up, not just because of the terrible message, but because it was my childhood hero saying it. I love David Attenborough too. Thank you for posting.
Michael Schermer who writes a Skeptic column for Scientific American recently did the same thing - wrote a column entirely about how he used to be skeptical about environmental change but now the evidence is more than enough even for him, and he's "converting" to confirmed environmentalist.
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what will the Earth be like when we turn 80???
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I realized the other day that he was a huge influence on me. I'm certainly nowhere near as authoritative as him, but I can aspire to be like him.
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would that everyone felt that way...
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