In an interview he told with "Time Out magazine" that he loved Richmond 'Partly because I live there, partly because my friends and family are there. He added in the climate suits me and London has the greatest serious music that you can hear any day of the week in the world, you think it's going to be Vienna or Paris or somewhere, but if you go to Vienna or Paris and say, "Let's hear some good music,' there isn't any. Unsurprisingly for the natural history buff, it is the capital's museums that give it the edge. London has fine museums, the British Library is one of the greatest library institutions in the world...It's got everything you want really."
And fans of his nature programmes will be relieved to hear he has no plans to retire in mind. In the Time Out interview, out next week, he said: "There are plenty of people at my age who can't move out of a chair. It's just good luck in my case than I can. If I can make programmes when I'm 95, that would be fine." The climate in London suits me, and it has the greatest serious music that you can hear any day of the week in the world, you think it's going to be Vienna or Paris or somewhere also. Fans of Sir David's catalogue of natural history programmes will also be thrilled to learn he wants to go on making more. And asked for this thoughts on conservation and the extinction of the human race, he said: "Very few species have survived unchanged. There's one called lingula, which is a little shellfish, a little brachiopod about the size of my fingernail, that has survived for 500 million years, but it's survived by being unobtrusive and doing nothing, and you can't accuse human beings of that.'