Has he seen the film Grizzly Man, in which amateur naturalist Timothy Treadwell comes to a sticky end after getting too pally with the grizzly bears he is studying? Attenborough is familiar with the case. He sees Treadwell's soppy reasoning as symptomatic of the spoilt, modern world in which people "aren't used to being uncomfortable; they think the world owes them a living and the idea that they might be cold or hungry is alien ... There are a number of people in that mad, green [circle] who say nature is wonderful, lovely, and mankind has distorted it, and if you go out there with an innocent heart ... well," he huffs. "If you go out there with an innocent heart, you're eaten."
This is not to say that it is "disreputable" to get all maternal about baby mammals. "It's just wrong. You see a little fawn with large eyes, like Bambi ... oh, oh, little darling. But, in fact, half of them get killed in the first month and we all die and are subject to disease. Life is full of tragedy."
Full article here (very old).
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