Its about cherishing the woodland at the bottom of your garden or the stream that runs through it. It affects every aspect of life.

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.

The reverse side of the coin in having this extraordinary ability to go anywhere, is that no one anywhere is remote any more.

We can now manipulate images to such an extrodinary extent that there's no lie you cannot tell.

All the modern devices we have enable us to investigate things and have enabled us to do better.

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.

All our environmental problems become easier to solve with fewer people and harder - and ultimately impossible to solve - with ever more people.