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They Always Mean Beautiful Things Like Hummingbirds. I Always Reply By Saying That I Think Of A Little Child In East Africa With A Worm Burrowing Through His Eyeball. The Worm Cannot Live In Any Other Way, Except By Burrowing Through Eyeballs. I Find That Hard To Reconcile With The Notion Of A Divine And Benevolent Creator.

-David Attenborough

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They Always Mean Beautiful Things Like Hummingbirds.

David Attenborough

They Always Mean Beautiful Things Like Hummingbirds. I Always Reply By Saying That I Think Of A Little Child In East Africa With A Worm Burrowing Through His Eyeball. The Worm Cannot Live In Any Other Way, Except By Burrowing Through Eyeballs. I Find That Hard To Reconcile With The Notion Of A Divine And Benevolent Creator.

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They Always Mean Beautiful Things Like Hummingbirds. I Always Reply By Saying That I Think Of A Little Child In East Africa With A Worm Burrowing Through His Eyeball. The Worm Cannot Live In Any Other Way, Except By Burrowing Through Eyeballs. I Find That Hard To Reconcile With The Notion Of A Divine And Benevolent Creator.

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