“I appreciate that I'm in the privileged situation of getting to spend ...” — Steve Backshall Quote

I appreciate that I'm in the privileged situation of getting to spend my entire life outdoors with wildlife, and I know first hand how good it makes you feel, and it's a message that I have to try to get across to kids because as an adult, I can see the dangers that normal modern life exacts upon children.

The older I've got, the more I've yearned for heritage, for a sense of belonging and coming from somewhere.

If the world's oceans have had nearly half a billion years with sharks as the apex predators, then the delicate balance of its food webs must rely on their presence in complex ways we cannot possibly predict.

It's going to sound terribly glib and cliched but the more I learn about animals, the more convinced I am that almost all the fears we have about them are unfounded.

We, as adults, have not given children the tools to grow up healthy in our society.

The dream of the theater for for me is that it's a room full of adults and kids. I want kids and grownups to be totally focused on the same object.

I'm not sure I can write about America for the same reason I'm not sure I can write about adults - I have no critical distance on either place.

It is unacceptable that the system we rely on to develop children into well-adjusted, learned, cultured adults allows drones to dominate and increasingly devalues freethinkers.

I get a lot of letters. Not only from children but from adults, too. Almost every week, every month, clippings come in from some part of the world where ducks are crossing the street.