I've never particularly liked travelling with large groups or being told where to go by somebody else. I prefer to find out for myself.

I got my first lifetime achievement award years ago, and I was very excited, but then I got a sense of: Well, can one get a second lifetime award?

When I'm travelling, I always take my little notebook and scribble things down as I watch them; I'm very much geared to everything that's happening. Whereas, the diary I keep is just about a record of a day I've spent. When I'm filming, I'm looking quite intensely at everything I see and trying to get my own eye on what we're going through.

John Hall, my geography teacher at school inspired me to a lifelong interest in geography and a curiosity about our world which has stayed with me through my life. Geography is a living, breathing subject, constantly adapting itself to change. It is dynamic and relevant. For me geography is a great adventure with a purpose.

The trouble with travelling back later on is that you can never repeat the same experience.

The Buddhist version of poverty is a situation where you have nothing to contribute.

Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life