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

In the Baboon community, it is not how strong you are that is important, but who you know that counts

What I am interested in with birds, just as I am with spiders or monkeys, is what they do and why they do it.

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

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

I don't think whole populations are villainous, but Americans are just extraordinarily unaware of all kinds of things. If you live in the middle of that vast continent, with apparently everything your heart could wish for just because you were born there, then why worry? [...] If people lose knowledge, sympathy and understanding of the natural world, they're going to mistreat it and will not ask their politicians to care for it.

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