The idea that the Lord had given us a present, that the world is a gift from God... well, the amount of stuff, back then, that the Lord was giving away was limited. We do not have dominion.

I am an ardent recycler. I would like to think that it works. I don't know whether it does or not.

Its about cherishing the woodland at the bottom of your garden or the stream that runs through it. It affects every aspect of life.

The notion of ever more old people needing ever more young people, who will in turn grow old and need even more young people, and so on ad infinitum, is an obvious ecological Ponzi scheme.

Fundamentally not to waste energy. If we were all to reduce our demands for energy, it would make an enormous amount of difference.

We can now manipulate images to such an extrodinary extent that there's no lie you cannot tell.

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.