What I Am Interested In With Birds,

No, Not A Feminist. I'm A Humanist. I'm Neither One Side Nor The Other.

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.

Sentimentalising Is Anathema, As Far As I Am Concerned. It Leads You Into Ethical Problems About Violence And Killing And Eating Meat. The Whole World Becomes Topsy-survy If You Impose Moralities That Were Evolved Within Human Society On What A Blowfly Or What A Parasite Does... There Are Lots Of Emotions You Can Deduce From An Animal's Behaviour That Are Correct, But When You Start Saying It's Feeling Guilty Or Thinking Or A Loved One Or Mourning, You Must Be Very Careful Of Those Feelings.

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.

I Remember When We Were In The World Cup In Australia And I Had To Win The Singles Against Tony Payne, Best Of Seven Legs, To Win It. I Was 2-0 Down But Ended Up Beating Him I Suffer Much Less Than Many Of My Colleagues. I Am Perfectly Able To Go To Australia And Film Within Three Hours Of Arrival.