I Think We're Lucky To Be Living

You Can Only Get Really Unpopular Decisions Through If The Electorate Is Convinced Of The Value Of The Environment. That's What Natural History Programmes Should Be For.

This Last Chapter .. May Have Given The Impression That Somehow Man Is The Ultimate Triumph Of Evolution, That All These Millions Of Years Of Development Have Had No Purpose Other Than To Put Him On Earth. There Is No Scientific Evidence Whatever To Support Such A View And No Reason To Suppose That Our Stay Here Will Be Any More Permanent Than That Of The Dinosaur.

The Whole Of Science, And One Is Tempted To Think The Whole Of The Life Of Any Thinking Man, Is Trying To Come To Terms With The Relationship Between Yourself And The Natural World. Why Are You Here, And How Do You Fit In, And What's It All About.

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.

I Don't Like Rats, But There's Not Much Else I Don't Like. The Problem With Rats Is They Have No Fear Of Human Beings, They're Loaded With Foul Diseases, They Would Run The Place Given Half The Chance, And I've Had Them Leap Out Of A Lavatory While I've Been Sitting On It.