I don't think we are going to become extinct. We're very clever and extremely resourceful - and we will find ways of preserving ourselves, of that I'm sure. But whether our lives will be as rich as they are now is another question.

Natural history is not about producing fables.

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'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how animals work.

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

Fundamentally not to waste energy. If we were all to reduce our demands for energy, it would make an enormous amount of difference.

I'm not over-fond of animals. I am merely astounded by them.