Quote of the day by David Attenborough: ‘We often talk of saving the planet, but the truth is that we must do these things to save ourselves’ – British naturalist on humanity and nature

David Attenborough has spent decades documenting the natural world and warning about humanity’s growing impact on it. His powerful quote from A Life on Our Planet reframes environmental protection as an issue of human survival, offering a striking reminder that nature may recover without us, but humanity depends on keeping it alive.