Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on a license which is not the same as a government grant.

Fundamentally not to waste energy. If we were all to reduce our demands for energy, it would make an enormous amount of difference.

People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.

You'll find people where their conditions aren't changing in any way, its rather rare for them to be happy.

This last chapter .. may have given the impression that somehow man is the ultimate triumph of evolution, that all these millions of years of development have had no purpose other than to put him on earth. There is no scientific evidence whatever to support such a view and no reason to suppose that our stay here will be any more permanent than that of the dinosaur.

People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly clearly. Periodic famines are due to too many people living on land that can't sustain them.

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