I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see a wild creature from dawn 'til dusk, unless it's a pigeon, which isn't really wild, which might come and settle near them.

The fundamental issue is the moral issue.

Do we really require so many gardening programmes, makeover programmes or celebrity chefs?

Nature isn't positive in that way. It doesn't aim itself at you. It's not being unkind to you.

I often get letters, quite frequently, from people who say how they like the programmes a lot, but I never give credit to the almighty power that created nature.

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

I have no doubt that the fundamental problem the planet faces is the enormous increase in the human population