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.

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

It is vital that there is a narrator figure whom people believe. That's why I never do commercials. If I started saying that margarine was the same as motherhood, people would think I was a liar.

I've been to Nepal, but I'd like to go to Tibet. It must be a wonderful place to go. I don't think there's anything there, but it would be a nice place to visit.

One in eight plant species face extinction.

I'm luckier than my grandfather, who didn't move more than five miles from the village in which he was born.