All life is related. And it enables us to construct with confidence the complex tree that represents the history of life

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

I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see a wild creature from dawn 'til dusk, unless it's a pigeon, which isn't really wild, which might come and settle near them.

The savage, rocky shores of Christmas Island, 200 miles south of Java, in the Indian Ocean. It's November, the moon is in its third quarter, and the sun is just setting. In a few hours from now, on this very shore, a thousand million lives will be launched.

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

I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours of arrival.

It's like saying that two and two equals four, but if you wish to believe it, it could also be five ... Evolution is not a theory; it is a fact, every bit as much as the historical fact that William the Conqueror landed in 1066.