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

Life is not all high emotion. Some of the most interesting things are when its not highly emotional: little details of relationships and body language.

In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn't use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes.

Being in touch with the natural world is crucial.

If we and the rest of the back-boned animals were to disappear overnight, the rest of the world would get on pretty well. But if the invertebrates were to disappear, the world's ecosystems would collapse

‎Using his burgeoning intelligence, this most successful of all mammals has exploited the environment to produce food for an ever increasing population. Instead of controlling the environment for the benefit of the population, perhaps it's time we controlled the population to allow the survival of the environment.

The more you go on, the less you need people standing between you and the animal and the camera waving their arms about.