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

Any difficulties which the world faces today will be as nothing compared to the full effects which global warming will have on the world-wide economy.

We don't, in a sensible world, want to hand on an increasingly dysfunctional world to our grandchildren.

Some recent occurrences such as the BSE disaster and even perhaps - dare I mention it - the present severe weather conditions in our country are, I have no doubt, the consequences of mankind's arrogant disregard of the delicate balance of nature. We have to find a way of ensuring that our remarkable and seemingly beneficial advances in technology do not just become the agents of our own destruction.

Be neither too remote nor too familiar.

If you chuck away too many things, you end up discovering there was value in them.

I learned the way a monkey learns - by watching its parents.