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

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.

We can now destroy or we can cherish-the choice is ours.

I've been bitten by a python. Not a very big one. I was being silly, saying: 'Oh, it's not poisonous' Then, wallop! But you have fear around animals.

What I am interested in with birds, just as I am with spiders or monkeys, is what they do and why they do it.

Natural history is not about producing fables.

Opponents say natural selection is not a theory supported by observation or experiment; that it is not based on fact; and that it cannot be proved. Well, no, you cannot prove the theory to people who won't believe in it any more than you can prove that the Battle of Hastings took place in 1066. However, we know the battle happened then, just as we know the course of evolution on earth unambiguously shows that Darwin was right.