Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel.
Dealing with global warming doesn't mean we have all got to suddenly stop breathing. Dealing with global warming means that we have to stop waste, and if you travel for no reason whatsoever, that is a...
Natural history is not about producing fables.
The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason to be optimistic.
I think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home.
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 find it far more awesome, wonderful, that creation; our appearance in the world; should be the culmination, or at least one of the latest products of 3,000 Million years of organic evolution, than a...
I don't like rats, but there's not much else I don't like. The problem with rats is they have no fear of human beings, they're loaded with foul diseases, they would run the place given half the chance...
There is no question that climate change is happening the only arguable point is what part humans are playing in it.
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.
An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment.
Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that gives them a sixth sense of what the creature is going to do, so t...
People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.
All our environmental problems become easier to solve with fewer people and harder - and ultimately impossible to solve - with ever more people.
I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.
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.
I can mention many moments that were unforgettable and revelatory. But the most single revelatory three minutes was the first time I put on scuba gear and dived on a coral reef. It's just the unbeliev...
The process of making natural history films is to try to prevent the animal knowing you are there, so you get glimpses of a non-human world, and that is a transporting thing.
I'm not in politics.
People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly clearly. Periodic famines are due to too many people living on land that can'...