Quotes About Awareness

I think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home.

Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren't aware that you are not treating them with respect, the viewers are.

All we can hope for is that the thing is going to slowly and imperceptibly shift. All I can say is that 50 years ago there were no such thing as environmental policies.

You can cry about death and very properly so, your own as well as anybody else's. But it's inevitable, so you'd better grapple with it and cope and be aware that not only is it inevitable, but it has always been inevitable, if you see what I mean.

I don't think whole populations are villainous, but Americans are just extraordinarily unaware of all kinds of things. If you live in the middle of that vast continent, with apparently everything your heart could wish for just because you were born there, then why worry? [...] If people lose knowledge, sympathy and understanding of the natural world, they're going to mistreat it and will not ask their politicians to care for it.

Young people: They care. They know that this is the world that they're going to grow up in, that they're going to spend the rest of their lives in. But, I think it's more idealistic than that. They actually believe that humanity, human species, has no right to destroy and despoil regardless.

We live our comfortable lives in the shadow of a disaster of our own making. That disaster is being brought about by the very things that allow us to live our comfortable lives.

We are at a unique stage in our history. Never before have we had such an awareness of what we are doing to the planet, and never before have we had the power to do something about that. Surely we all have a responsibility to care for our Blue Planet. The future of humanity and indeed, all life on earth, now depends on us.

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 think we're lucky to be living when we are, because things are going to get worse.

The natural world is fading. The evidence is all around. It has happened during my lifetime. I have seen it with my own eyes. It will lead to our destruction.

Since I started filming in the 1950s, on average, wild animal populations have more than halved. I look at these images now and I realize that, although as a young man I felt I was out there in the wild experiencing the untouched natural world... it was an illusion. Those forests and plains and seas were already emptying.

No one will protect what they don't care about; and no one will care about what they have never experiened".

Ingen ville att djur skulle utrotas. Människor började bry sig om naturen när de blev mer medvetna om den. Och televisionen bidrog till det, världen över.

a place does not have to be pristine to be worthy of protection and care... If people are open and observant, wilderness is all around us.

Warren Buffett once put it: "The most important thing to do when you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.

Many people] plunge into all sorts of detail about what they want to accomplish, what investment they should buy, and where they want to be, without fist making sure they know where they stand now.

When it comes to money, just having heard of something isn't enough; you've got to know what it means.

It's not what you know about money—it's what you don't know that can wipe you out.

That's the thing about your destiny how are you supposed to know when it arrives? How are you supposed to recognise it from random life?

We live in a culture now where impact is more important than intent; where how things are taken is more significant than how they are meant.

he was looking at Isla Fawcett, who was looking at her brother Morris, who had his eyes shut because he was asleep.

just look around you. I don't wish to be rude …

We have to know what's meant