David Attenborough

I don't approve of sunbathing, and it's bad for you.

I'm absolutely strict about it. When I land, I put my watch right, and I don't care what I feel like, I will go to bed at half past eleven. If that means going to bed early or late, that's what I live by. As soon as you get there, live by that time.

I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours of arrival.

Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel.

I believe the Abominable Snowman may be real. I think there may be something in that.

I'm swanning round the world looking at the most fabulously interesting things. Such good fortune.

The fundamental issue is the moral issue.

I'm not in politics.

Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that gives them a sixth sense of what the creature is going to do, so they can be ready to follow.

I've been to Nepal, but I'd like to go to Tibet. It must be a wonderful place to go. I don't think there's anything there, but it would be a nice place to visit.

I don't think we are going to become extinct. We're very clever and extremely resourceful - and we will find ways of preserving ourselves, of that I'm sure. But whether our lives will be as rich as they are now is another question.

If I can make programmes when I'm 95, that would be fine. But I would think I'll have had enough by then.

Apart from anything else, I am designed by evolution, like we all are: if we see a little thing like that, big eyes, tiny nose, we go 'aaah'. That's what evolution does. We are programmed to do that. So to find babies the most amazing, isn't surprising, I don't think.

London has fine museums, the British Library is one of the greatest library institutions in the world... It's got everything you want, really.

The climate suits me, and London has the greatest serious music that you can hear any day of the week in the world - you think it's going to be Vienna or Paris or somewhere, but if you go to Vienna or Paris and say, 'Let's hear some good music', there isn't any.

If my grandchildren were to look at me and say, 'You were aware species were disappearing and you did nothing, you said nothing', that I think is culpable. I don't know how much more they expect me to be doing, I'd better ask them.

The process of making natural history films is to try to prevent the animal knowing you are there, so you get glimpses of a non-human world, and that is a transporting thing.

The more you go on, the less you need people standing between you and the animal and the camera waving their arms about.

I can mention many moments that were unforgettable and revelatory. But the most single revelatory three minutes was the first time I put on scuba gear and dived on a coral reef. It's just the unbelievable fact that you can move in three dimensions.

It is that range of biodiversity that we must care for - the whole thing - rather than just one or two stars.