I would like to go to Russia very much — although the bastards murdered half my family.

It seems to me that it's the best way of wasting money that I know of. I don't think investments on the moon pay a very high dividend.

I don't claim to have any special interest in natural history, but as a boy I was made aware of the annual fluctuations in the number of game animals and the need to adjust the cull to the size of the surplus population.

It's not a very big one, but at least it's dead and it took an awful lot of killing!

Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed.

The world population 60 years ago was just over 2 billion and it's now more than 6 billion. This huge increase - an explosion really - has probably done more harm to the environment than anything else.

The conservation of nature, the proper care for the human environment and a general concern for the long-term future of the whole of our planet are absolutely vital if future generations are to have a chance to enjoy their existence on this earth.