I'm swanning round the world looking at the most fabulously interesting things. Such good fortune.

What I am interested in with birds, just as I am with spiders or monkeys, is what they do and why they do it.

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

All the modern devices we have enable us to investigate things and have enabled us to do better.

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.

They always mean beautiful things like hummingbirds. I always reply by saying that I think of a little child in east Africa with a worm burrowing through his eyeball. The worm cannot live in any other way, except by burrowing through eyeballs. I find that hard to reconcile with the notion of a divine and benevolent creator.

I'd like to see the giant squid. Nobody has ever seen one. I could tell you people who have spent thousands and thousands of pounds trying to see giant squid. I mean, we know they exist because we have seen dead ones. But I have never seen a living one. Nor has anybody else.