"The truth is, every single British reptile is somewhere in . ... They call 'em the big six. Actually, it's the fairly…"

"... a hundred and fifty s — that is not natural ... Very little is this garden is actually you know, on any grand sca…"

"I could sit and watch this sort of thing for ages — and, in fact, I do. Absolute routine — having had my breakfast do…"

"… 84% of people in England and Wales want foxhunting to remain illegal. That’s the kind of public support most politi…"

"... in many ways, the days of conservation are, sadly, a little bit numbered ... the point I'm trying to make is ... …"

"Anyone who has witnessed Bill Oddie’s passion for nature, or watched the personable and wonderfully erudite wildlife …"

"The more I thought about it, the more obsessed I became with the idea of a swimming journey. I started to dream ever …"

"From water level, I observed the mating joined in flight like refuelling aircraft, and the random progress of the clo…"

"It is through trees that we see and hear the wind: woodland people can tell the species of a tree from the sound it m…"

"Waterlog (1999), Roger's now-classic account of swimming through Britain, published twenty years ago this year, opens…"