Nature isn't positive in that way. It doesn't aim itself at you. It's not being unkind to you.

I don't run a car, have never run a car. I could say that this is because I have this extremely tender environmentalist conscience, but the fact is I hate driving.

London has fine museums, the British Library is one of the greatest library institutions in the world... It's got everything you want, really.

Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel.

The fact is that no species has ever had such wholesale control over everything on earth, living or dead, as we now have. That lays upon us, whether we like it or not, an awesome responsibility. In our hands now lies not only our own future, but that of all other living creatures with whom we share the earth.

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

I've been to Nepal, but I'd like to go to Tibet. It must be a wonderful place to go. I don't think there's anything there, but it would be a nice place to visit.