Being in touch with the natural world is crucial.

An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment.

People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.

As far as I'm concerned, if there is a supreme being then He chose organic evolution as a way of bringing into existence the natural world... which doesn't seem to me to be necessarily blasphemous at all.

It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.

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.