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"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."
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"I get along with Australians really well. Everyone's usually really cool, and it's always a drag to leave."
"Everywhere I travel to, there is my home."
"We travel to see the reflection of our minds on the mirror of changes so that we may enrich ourselves."
"With me, travelling is frankly a vice. The temptation to indulge in it is one which I find almost as hard to resist as the temptation to read promiscuously, omnivorously and without purpose. From time to time, it is true, I make a desperate resolution to mend my ways. I sketch out programmes of useful, serious reading; I try to turn my rambling voyages into systematic tours through the history of art and civilization. But without much success. After a little I relapse into my old bad ways. Deplorable weakness! I try to comfort myself with the hope that even my vices may be of some profit to me."
"To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive."
"We travel not just to see the beauty of new places but to see our own beauty in a new environment."
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"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."
"An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment."
"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 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."
"I think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home."
"It was regarded as a responsibility of the BBC to provide programs which have a broad spectrum of interest, and if there was a hole in that spectrum, then the BBC would fill it."
"Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on a license which is not the same as a government grant."
"I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours of arrival."
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