The Notion Of Ever More Old People

At A Time When It's Possible For Thirty People To Stand On The Top Of Everest In One Day, Antarctica Still Remains A Remote, Lonely And Desolate Continent. A Place Where It's Possible To See The Splendours And Immensities Of The Natural World At Its Most Dramatic And, What's More, Witness Them Almost Exactly As They Were, Long, Long Before Human Beings Ever Arrived On The Surface Of This Planet. Long May It Remain So.

The Climate Suits Me, And London Has The Greatest Serious Music That You Can Hear Any Day Of The Week In The World - You Think It's Going To Be Vienna Or Paris Or Somewhere, But If You Go To Vienna Or Paris And Say, 'let's Hear Some Good Music', There Isn't Any.

Reptiles And Amphibians Are Sometimes Thought Of As Primitive, Dull And Dimwitted. In Fact, Of Course, They Can Be Lethally Fast, Spectacularly Beautiful, Surprisingly Affectionate And Very Sophisticated.

I Often Get Letters, Quite Frequently, From People Who Say How They Like The Programmes A Lot, But I Never Give Credit To The Almighty Power That Created Nature.

Until Humanity Manages To Sort Itself Out And Get A Co-ordinated View About The Planet, It's Going To Get Worse And Worse.