I think the most alarming animals I have encountered are really poisonous snakes.

Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone in the world, as universal as a bird?

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.

I'm luckier than my grandfather, who didn't move more than five miles from the village in which he was born.

It never really occurred to me to believe in God.

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.

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