After a lifetime of bringing nature back, Sir David Attenborough wants us to get out of our comfort zones and help save the natural world. "I think it's terrible that children should1without knowing what a tadpole (蝌蚪) is. It is very2," he says. He sees a very different world: Arctic sea ice has3and some of the reefs where he dived are lifeless. His latest film, A life On Our Planet, highlights the large scale of humanity's impact on4. He says, the earth is heating up and could possibly5it into sudden, catastrophic disaster. Probably no one else alive has6as much of the Earth's surface as Attenborough. He warned if we don't mind our ways, we will7life as we know it, including ourselves.
For so many years, he travelled with just a leather suitcase. His wife would see him off at the airport, never knowing8when he would return. In 1997, when he was filming a9about birdlife, his wife suffered a serious illness. He flew to her bedside just in time for her to squeeze his10before she died. Afterwards, he11himself into his work again. These days, more often, he is in a recording studio so he stresses it's film crews who spend months capturing footage (镜头), not he, that should take the12.
Despite his13, he remains modest. "The future is at stake, not for him but for the next14," he says. "We are representatives of a very15, damaging species. So just be modest. Don't waste."
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