I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.

The truth is: the natural world is changing. And we are totally dependent on that world. It provides our food, water and air. It is the most precious thing we have and we need to defend it.

People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.

Children start off reading in books about lions and giraffes and so on, but they also-if theyre lucky enough and have reasonable privileges of any human being-are able to go into a garden and turn over stone and see a worm and see a slug and see an ant.

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.

The fundamental issue is the moral issue.

There are perfectly good independent small nations.