Steve Irwin Did Wonderful Conservation Work But

It Is Curiosity, Quite Right-a Divine Curiosity. A Characteristic Of The Gods Is Curiosity.

People Talk About Doom-laden Scenarios Happening In The Future: They Are Happening In Africa Now. You Can See It Perfectly Clearly. Periodic Famines Are Due To Too Many People Living On Land That Can't Sustain Them.

If I Were Beginning My Career Today, I Don't Think I Would Take The Same Direction. Television Is At A Crossroads At The Moment. And Although I Am Not Up To Date Technologically, I Suspect That Somewhere Out There People Are Conveying Things About Natural History By Means Other Than Television, And I Think If I Were Beginning Today, I'd Be There.

The Savage, Rocky Shores Of Christmas Island, 200 Miles South Of Java, In The Indian Ocean. It's November, The Moon Is In Its Third Quarter, And The Sun Is Just Setting. In A Few Hours From Now, On This Very Shore, A Thousand Million Lives Will Be Launched.

Television Of Course Actually Started In Britain In 1936, And It Was A Monopoly, And There Was Only One Broadcaster And It Operated On A License Which Is Not The Same As A Government Grant.