Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel.

People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile.

Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English.

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

Apart from anything else, I am designed by evolution, like we all are: if we see a little thing like that, big eyes, tiny nose, we go 'aaah'. That's what evolution does. We are programmed to do that. So to find babies the most amazing, isn't surprising, I don't think.

‎Using his burgeoning intelligence, this most successful of all mammals has exploited the environment to produce food for an ever increasing population. Instead of controlling the environment for the benefit of the population, perhaps it's time we controlled the population to allow the survival of the environment.

I suspect that happiness is not a state but rather a transition.