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

The World is full of wonders, but they become more Wonderful, not less Wonderful when Science looks at them.

You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural history programmes should be for.

I don't approve of sunbathing, and it's bad for you.

I'm absolutely strict about it. When I land, I put my watch right, and I don't care what I feel like, I will go to bed at half past eleven. If that means going to bed early or late, that's what I live by. As soon as you get there, live by that time.

If I can bicycle, I bicycle.

Until humanity manages to sort itself out and get a co-ordinated view about the planet, it's going to get worse and worse.