David Attenborough

Children start off reading in books about lions and giraffes and so on, but they also-if they're lucky enough and read more

Children start off reading in books about lions and giraffes and so on, but they also-if they're 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.

The only way Prescott is going to get through something to do with transport policy, is if the public think read more

The only way Prescott is going to get through something to do with transport policy, is if the public think there are too many damn things on the road, and use the railways.

The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except read more

The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?

It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; read more

It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.

It's very easy to say everything is outrageous. But if you have an oil company that's setting up its own read more

It's very easy to say everything is outrageous. But if you have an oil company that's setting up its own environmental department, for example, what do you do? Do you spit in its eye, or do you make sure that what they do actually has some substance?