I find it far more awesome, wonderful, that creation; our appearance in the world; should be the culmination, or at least one of the latest products of 3,000 Million years of organic evolution, than a kind of country trick, taking a rib out of a man's side in a trance.

We can now destroy or we can cherish-the choice is ours.

I often get letters, quite frequently, from people who say how they like the programmes a lot, but I never give credit to the almighty power that created nature.

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

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

What humans do over the next 50 years will determine the fate of all life on the planet.

As far as I'm concerned, if there is a supreme being then He chose organic evolution as a way of bringing into existence the natural world... which doesn't seem to me to be necessarily blasphemous at all.