I don't like rats, but there's not much else I don't like. The problem with rats is they have no fear of human beings, they're loaded with foul diseases, they would run the place given half the chance, and I've had them leap out of a lavatory while I've been sitting on it.

Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.

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

The climate suits me, and London has the greatest serious music that you can hear any day of the week in the world - you think it's going to be Vienna or Paris or somewhere, but if you go to Vienna or Paris and say, 'Let's hear some good music', there isn't any.

In the Baboon community, it is not how strong you are that is important, but who you know that counts

The nature of human beings is that they'd far rather face the disaster that is happening tonight than the one that is happening tomorrow.

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.