I Would Love To Go And See

The Fundamental Issue Is The Moral Issue.

Children Start Off Reading In Books About Lions And Giraffes And So On, But They Also-if Theyre Lucky Enough And Have Reasonable Privileges Of Any Human Being-are Able To Go Into A Garden And Turn Over Stone And See A Worm And See A Slug And See An Ant.

That People Will Object Very Much To Seeing A Predator Killing Its Prey, And Yet, In The News, Will Accept Showing Shots Of People Shooting One Another.

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.

They Always Mean Beautiful Things Like Hummingbirds. I Always Reply By Saying That I Think Of A Little Child In East Africa With A Worm Burrowing Through His Eyeball. The Worm Cannot Live In Any Other Way, Except By Burrowing Through Eyeballs. I Find That Hard To Reconcile With The Notion Of A Divine And Benevolent Creator.