Ed Baker

People knew that animals were nocturnal but they didn't really know what they did because they couldn't see it.

It's about cherishing the woodland at the bottom of your garden or the stream that runs through it. It affects every aspect of life.

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.

The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?

The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between it and millions of other species of both animals and plants.

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

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.

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

I like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. The travel bit is what you have to do in order to go and look at animals.

I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.