All our environmental problems become easier to solve with fewer people and harder - and ultimately impossible to solve - with ever more people.

Since when has Finland been a rotten place to live in?

I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how animals work.

Getting to places like Bangkok or Singapore was a hell of a sweat. But when you got there it was the back of beyond. It was just a series of small tin sheds.

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.

I don't approve of sunbathing, and it's bad for you.

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