The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?

You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural history programmes should be for.

No, not a feminist. I'm a humanist. I'm neither one side nor the other.

It's coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It's not just climate change; it's sheer space, places to grow food for this enormous horde. Either we limit our population growth or the natural world will do it for us, and the natural world is doing it for us right now.

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.

I think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home.

I'd like to see the giant squid. Nobody has ever seen one. I could tell you people who have spent thousands and thousands of pounds trying to see giant squid. I mean, we know they exist because we have seen dead ones. But I have never seen a living one. Nor has anybody else.