Yesterday marked the 97th birthday of Sir David Attenborough. For generations, he has been the chief connection between children and the natural world beyond their safe schools, concrete cities, and cotton-wool existence. As our civilisation urbanised, work such as his became essential otherwise how else would a child raised in modernity learn to care about an endangered frog in the Amazon? And yes, they should care about the other living things on this planet.

Attenborough is part of that era who never really retired, continuing to churn out content even at 97.