 Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel. |
| I'm absolutely strict about it. When I land, I put my watch right, and I don't care what I feel like, I will go to bed at half past eleven. If that means going to bed early or late, that's what I live by. As soon as you get there, live by that time. |
| Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English. |
| 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. |
| I think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home. |
| I've been to Nepal, but I'd like to go to Tibet. It must be a wonderful place to go. I don't think there's anything there, but it would be a nice place to visit. |
| All we can hope for is that the thing is going to slowly and imperceptibly shift. All I can say is that 50 years ago there were no such thing as environmental policies. |
| Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on a license which is not the same as a government grant. |
| It is that range of biodiversity that we must care for - the whole thing - rather than just one or two stars. |
| In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn't use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes. |
| The fundamental issue is the moral issue. |
| I don't approve of sunbathing, and it's bad for you. |
| It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species. |
| I'm not in politics. |
| Being in touch with the natural world is crucial. |
| The whole of science, and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man, is trying to come to terms with the relationship between yourself and the natural world. Why are you here, and how do you fit in, and what's it all about. |
| You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural history programmes should be for. |
| It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living. |
| I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored. |
| An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment. |
