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- People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile.
- We keep putting on programmes about famine in Ethiopia; that's what's happening. Too many people there. They can't support themselves - and it's not an…
- It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species.
- Natural history is not about producing fables.
- You know, it is a terrible thing to appear on television, because people think that you actually know what you're talking about.
- Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren't aware that you are not treating…
- 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…
- 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…
- It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us about the first…
- 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…
- The most extraordinary thing about trying to piece together the missing links in the evolutionary story is that when you do find a missing link…
- Very few species have survived unchanged. There's one called lingula, which is a little shellfish, a little brachiopod about the size of my fingernail, that…
- The more you go on, the less you need people standing between you and the animal and the camera waving their arms about.
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