– Sir David Attenborough, NPR Weekend Edition, Oct 24, 2010

“… I guess I was about eight when I first hit a rock and it fell apart and I saw, inside that rock, a shining, glittering, perfect seashell complete in every detail, and knowing that nobody had seen that before, and it had been laying without the sun shining on it for 100 or 200 million years. Now, that seems to me unbelievably romantic. And fossils have always seemed to me that way. There’s also the part of the treasure hunt in it, of course, you know, of finding things and collecting things. And who knows what you’re going to find when you turn over the next rock. But basically, it’s that thrill of looking at animals that lived a million, 10 million, 100 million years ago. ”