I'm A Humanist. I'm Neither One Side

I Don't Think Whole Populations Are Villainous, But Americans Are Just Extraordinarily Unaware Of All Kinds Of Things. If You Live In The Middle Of That Vast Continent, With Apparently Everything Your Heart Could Wish For Just Because You Were Born There, Then Why Worry? [...] If People Lose Knowledge, Sympathy And Understanding Of The Natural World, They're Going To Mistreat It And Will Not Ask Their Politicians To Care For It.

I've Been Bitten By A Python. Not A Very Big One. I Was Being Silly, Saying: 'oh, It's Not Poisonous' Then, Wallop! But You Have Fear Around Animals.

The Idea That The Lord Had Given Us A Present, That The World Is A Gift From God... Well, The Amount Of Stuff, Back Then, That The Lord Was Giving Away Was Limited. We Do Not Have Dominion.

You've Got To Be Fairly Solemn [about The Environment]. I Mean The Mere Notion That There Are Three Times As Many People On Earth As There Were When I Started Making Television. How Can The Earth Accommodate Them? When People, Including Politicians, Set Their Faces Against Looking At The Consequences-it's Just Unbelievable That Anyone Could Ignore It.

It's Coming Home To Roost Over The Next 50 Years Or So. It's Not Just Climate Change; It's Sheer Space, Places To Grow Food For This Enormous Horde. Either We Limit Our Population Growth Or The Natural World Will Do It For Us, And The Natural World Is Doing It For Us Right Now.