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

How could I look my grandchildren in the eye and say I knew what was happening to the world and did nothing.

The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?

London has fine museums, the British Library is one of the greatest library institutions in the world... It's got everything you want, really.

I would love to go and see the Himalayan Mountain Kingdoms. There are very few left now. I would loved to have gone to Tibet and Nepal. And there are still parts of central Asia that are utterly unexplored.

Natural history is not about producing fables.

I suppose happiness is something one enjoys, but I suspect that happiness is not a state but rather a transition.