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

I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see a wild creature from dawn 'til dusk, unless it's a pigeon, which isn't really wild, which might come and settle near them.

London has fine museums, the British Library is one of the greatest library institutions in the world... It's got everything you want, really.

The savage, rocky shores of Christmas Island, 200 miles south of Java, in the Indian Ocean. It's November, the moon is in its third quarter, and the sun is just setting. In a few hours from now, on this very shore, a thousand million lives will be launched.

I think the most alarming animals I have encountered are really poisonous snakes.

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

I have no doubt that the fundamental problem the planet faces is the enormous increase in the human population