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

Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.

Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that gives them a sixth sense of what the creature is going to do, so they can be ready to follow.

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

I would love to see a giant squid. Very few people have seen them. And only about half a dozen people have seen one alive.

In the West, that's what's happening. The birth rate has been dropping steadily and still is. But there is still a vast amount of the world where that's not the case. And that is where the big population growth is taking place.

No, not a feminist. I'm a humanist. I'm neither one side nor the other.