If I Can Bicycle, I Bicycle.

Birds Are The Most Popular Group In The Animal Kingdom. We Feed Them And Tame Them And Think We Know Them. And Yet They Inhabit A World Which Is Really Rather Mysterious.

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.

I'm Swanning Round The World Looking At The Most Fabulously Interesting Things. Such Good Fortune.

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 Has Survived For 500 Million Years, But It's Survived By Being Unobtrusive And Doing Nothing, And You Can't Accuse Human Beings Of That.

Crying Wolf Is A Real Danger.