Climate Change Will Affect The Whole Of Humanity, While Terrorist Attacks Will Only Affect A Small Section Of Humanity. Of Course, You Wouldn't Say That If You Were Related To Someone Who Had Been Beheaded Or Blown Up Or Murdered.
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.
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.
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.
I've Never Actually Met One In The Wild, But I Have Seen A King Cobra. They Go Towards People, They Rear Up Six Feet Tall And They're Very Aggressive And They Are Very Fast. And One Bite Means Certain Death. So If I Encountered A King Cobra In The Wild I Would Be Very Alarmed.
If I Can Make Programmes When I'm 95, That Would Be Fine. But I Would Think I'll Have Had Enough By Then.
It Was Regarded As A Responsibility Of The Bbc To Provide Programs Which Have A Broad Spectrum Of Interest, And If There Was A Hole In That Spectrum, Then The Bbc Would Fill It.
Terrorism Is An Immediate Problem That People Are Very Concerned About, And I Am As Concerned About That As Anyone Else. But It Isn't An Either Or Situation.
All We Can Hope For Is That The Thing Is Going To Slowly And Imperceptibly Shift. All I Can Say Is That 50 Years Ago There Were No Such Thing As Environmental Policies.
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.
