Do we really require so many gardening programmes, makeover programmes or celebrity chefs?

It is vital that there is a narrator figure whom people believe. That's why I never do commercials. If I started saying that margarine was the same as motherhood, people would think I was a liar.

In the Baboon community, it is not how strong you are that is important, but who you know that counts

I have no doubt that the fundamental problem the planet faces is the enormous increase in the human population

Natural history is not about producing fables.

People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.

I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see a wild creature from dawn 'til dusk, unless it's a pigeon, which isn't really wild, which might come and settle near them.