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Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel.

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.

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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 think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home.

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...

I don't approve of sunbathing, and it's bad for you.

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.

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 just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.

The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?

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.

It is that range of biodiversity that we must care for - the whole thing - rather than just one or two stars.

It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species.

People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.

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...

You know, it is a terrible thing to appear on television, because people think that you actually know what you're talking about.

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.

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.

People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile.

Crying wolf is a real danger.

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