SIR David Attenborough can hardly believe he has reached the ripe old age of 85 despite a not-too-careful lifestyle.
He says: "I look at my friends who are not 80 yet and are in wheelchairs."If I could say, 'I've stayed off tobacco, drink and girls, and I've run around Richmond Park before breakfast all my life', you might say I'd earned it. But I haven't done any of those things!"
David also thinks how lucky it is he is not prone to sentimentality.
He eats meat, doesn't believe in God and feels little sorrow seeing a lion making a kill, dismissing it as "the order of the natural world".
But as he crouches by a tranquilised polar bear, stroking its deep fur while experts carry out vital health checks, he admits to being affected by the experience. Read More
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