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. |
There are a multitude of things that the individual can do. There is the present debate going on about petrol, for instance. The fact is that we are poisoning the atmosphere and the less fumes we put in it, the better. And we are using up our fossil fuels. |
There are perfectly good independent small nations. |
There is a shift... whether there will be some 180 turn-I don't think there can possibly be. But I think that we might move away from some of the appalling materialist considerations which have governed politics for a long time. |
Things change... I don't think we should regard change as a disaster. |
Very few people in the history of biology could have seen as much of the actual things that I have, and the sad thing is that I do so little with it. I'm so busy gobbling it up that I don't sort of digest it. |
We've lived here for 38 years. This is where our kids were born, and this is my place. As far as I'm concerned, if I can't have this, I don't want anything. |
Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English. |
When I was right in the middle of Borneo, you thought you were in a different world. There was no radio, no ways of communicating. |
You don't meet many 5-year-olds who are not interested in a hedgehog or a stickleback. |
You know, it is a terrible thing to appear on television, because people think that you actually know what you're talking about. |
You know, we could say yes, they were about to exterminate sea horses and now they aren't... But it isn't a solution to the world's problems. |
You were never quite sure which were pickpockets or loose ladies. |