I would love to go and see the Himalayan Mountain Kingdoms. There are very few left now. I would loved to have gone to Tibet and Nepal. And there are still parts of central Asia that are utterly unexplored.

I've never actually met one in the wild, but I have seen a king cobra. They go towards people, they rear up six feet tall and they're very aggressive and they are very fast. And one bite means certain death. So if I encountered a king cobra in the wild I would be very alarmed.

I'm not an animal lover if that means you think things are nice if you can pat them, but I am intoxicated by animals.

The human population can no longer be allowed to grow in the same old uncontrollable way. If we do not take charge of our population size, then nature will do it for us and it is the poor people of the world who will suffer most

Being in touch with the natural world is crucial.

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

The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates; none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason to be optimistic.