I'm not over-fond of animals. I am merely astounded by them.

I think the most alarming animals I have encountered are really poisonous snakes.

I'm swanning round the world looking at the most fabulously interesting things. Such good fortune.

People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile.

I'm against this huge globalisation on the basis of economic advantage.

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.

It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.