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

We can now manipulate images to such an extrodinary extent that there's no lie you cannot tell.

One in eight plant species face extinction.

Life is not all high emotion. Some of the most interesting things are when its not highly emotional: little details of relationships and body language.

London has fine museums, the British Library is one of the greatest library institutions in the world... It's got everything you want, really.

We can now destroy or we can cherish-the choice is ours.

If we and the rest of the back-boned animals were to disappear overnight, the rest of the world would get on pretty well. But if the invertebrates were to disappear, the world's ecosystems would collapse