Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English.

How could I look my grandchildren in the eye and say I knew what was happening to the world and did nothing.

Getting to places like Bangkok or Singapore was a hell of a sweat. But when you got there it was the back of beyond. It was just a series of small tin sheds.

The process of making natural history films is to try to prevent the animal knowing you are there, so you get glimpses of a non-human world, and that is a transporting thing.

If I can bicycle, I bicycle.

I'm not an animal lover if that means you think things are nice if you can pat them, but I am intoxicated by animals.

I'd like to see the giant squid. Nobody has ever seen one. I could tell you people who have spent thousands and thousands of pounds trying to see giant squid. I mean, we know they exist because we have seen dead ones. But I have never seen a living one. Nor has anybody else.