Bringing nature into the classroom can kindle a fascination and passion for the diversity of life on earth and can motivate a sense of responsibility to safeguard it.

The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between it and millions of other species of both animals and plants.

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'm a humanist. I'm neither one side nor the other.

Children start off reading in books about lions and giraffes and so on, but they also-if theyre lucky enough and have reasonable privileges of any human being-are able to go into a garden and turn over stone and see a worm and see a slug and see an ant.

The World is full of wonders, but they become more Wonderful, not less Wonderful when Science looks at them.

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