I'm Not An Animal Lover If That

Steve Irwin Did Wonderful Conservation Work But I Was Uncomfortable About Some Of His Stunts. Even If Animals Aren't Aware That You Are Not Treating Them With Respect, The Viewers Are.

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.

The Fundamental Issue Is The Moral Issue.

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.

In The Old Days... It Was A Basic, Cardinal Fact That Producers Didn't Have Opinions. When I Was Producing Natural History Programmes, I Didn't Use Them As Vehicles For My Own Opinion. They Were Factual Programmes.