There Is No Question That

Children Start Off Reading In Books About Lions And Giraffes And So On, But They Also-if Theyre Lucky Enough And Have Reasonable Privileges Of Any Human Being-are Able To Go Into A Garden And Turn Over Stone And See A Worm And See A Slug And See An Ant.

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.

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.

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.

I'm Not An Animal Lover If That Means You Think Things Are Nice If You Can Pat Them, But I Am Intoxicated By Animals.