The World is full of wonders, but they become more Wonderful, not less Wonderful when Science looks at them.

I would be absolutely astounded if population growth and industrialisation and all the stuff we are pumping into the atmosphere hadn't changed the climatic balance. Of course it has. There is no valid argument for denial.

I don't run a car, have never run a car. I could say that this is because I have this extremely tender environmentalist conscience, but the fact is I hate driving.

Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that gives them a sixth sense of what the creature is going to do, so they can be ready to follow.

I'm swanning round the world looking at the most fabulously interesting things. Such good fortune.

I would love to see a giant squid. Very few people have seen them. And only about half a dozen people have seen one alive.

You know, it is a terrible thing to appear on television, because people think that you actually know what you're talking about.