Steve Irwin Did Wonderful Conservation Work But

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.

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.

I Would Love To See A Giant Squid. Very Few People Have Seen Them. And Only About Half A Dozen People Have Seen One Alive.

I'd Like To See The Giant Squid. Nobody Has Ever Seen One. I Could Tell You People Who Have Spent Thousands And Thousands Of Pounds Trying To See Giant Squid. I Mean, We Know They Exist Because We Have Seen Dead Ones. But I Have Never Seen A Living One. Nor Has Anybody Else.

You've Got To Be Fairly Solemn [about The Environment]. I Mean The Mere Notion That There Are Three Times As Many People On Earth As There Were When I Started Making Television. How Can The Earth Accommodate Them? When People, Including Politicians, Set Their Faces Against Looking At The Consequences-it's Just Unbelievable That Anyone Could Ignore It.