It is that range of biodiversity that we must care for - the whole thing - rather than just one or two stars.

There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of staying alive.

I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.

I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours of arrival.

I don't run a car, have never run a car. I could say that this is because I have this extremely tender environmentalist conscience, but the fact is I hate driving.

You can cry about death and very properly so, your own as well as anybody else's. But it's inevitable, so you'd better grapple with it and cope and be aware that not only is it inevitable, but it has always been inevitable, if you see what I mean.

I've been to Nepal, but I'd like to go to Tibet. It must be a wonderful place to go. I don't think there's anything there, but it would be a nice place to visit.