It is vitally important that we can continue to say, with absolute conviction, that organic farming delivers the highest quality, best-tasting food, produced without artificial chemicals or genetic modification, and with respect for animal welfare and the environment, while helping to maintain the landscape and rural communities.

If your children want to alter society, listen to their reasons and the idealism behind them. Don't crush them with some clever remark straight away.

The world's forests need to be seen for what they are - giant global utilities, providing essential public services to humanity on a vast scale. They store carbon, which is lost to the atmosphere when they burn, increasing global warming. The life they support cleans the atmosphere of pollutants and feeds it with moisture. They act as a natural thermostat, helping to regulate our climate and sustain the lives of 1.4 billion of the poorest people on this Earth.

Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless you take account of people's attitudes. After all, if people don't want it, they won't have it.

Conservation must become before recreation.

Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes.

Climate change should be seen as the greatest challenge to face man and treated as a much bigger priority in the United Kingdom.