Until humanity manages to sort itself out and get a co-ordinated view about the planet, it's going to get worse and worse.

The World is full of wonders, but they become more Wonderful, not less Wonderful when Science looks at them.

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.

If we and the rest of the back-boned animals were to disappear overnight, the rest of the world would get on pretty well. But if the invertebrates were to disappear, the world's ecosystems would collapse

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.

Life is not all high emotion. Some of the most interesting things are when its not highly emotional: little details of relationships and body language.

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