 Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics. |
| The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book? |
| People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure. |
| Getting to places like Bangkok or Singapore was a hell of a sweat. But when you got there it was the back of beyond. It was just a series of small tin sheds. |
| People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile. Topics: Animal |
| You know, it is a terrible thing to appear on television, because people think that you actually know what you're talking about. |
| If I can bicycle, I bicycle. |
| It was regarded as a responsibility of the BBC to provide programs which have a broad spectrum of interest, and if there was a hole in that spectrum, then the BBC would fill it. |
| The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between it and millions of other species of both animals and plants. |
| I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours of arrival. |
| I'm against this huge globalisation on the basis of economic advantage. |
| I don't run a car, have never run a car. I could say that this is because I have this extremely tender environmentalist conscience, but the fact is I hate driving. |
| I like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. The travel bit is what you have to do in order to go and look at animals. |
| Crying wolf is a real danger. |
