The climate suits me, and London has the greatest serious music that you can hear any day of the week in the world - you think it's going to be Vienna or Paris or somewhere, but if you go to Vienna or Paris and say, 'Let's hear some good music', there isn't any.

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

Being in touch with the natural world is crucial.

You have to steer a course between not appalling people, but at the same time not misleading them.

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

What humans do over the next 50 years will determine the fate of all life on the planet.

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