Some people actually do not like animals - hard for me to understand, but true.

I've got different ideas of complete happiness. But one is being by myself out in a forest, completely happy. Another is walking with a dog in some nice place. And three is sitting around preferably a fire, but not necessarily, and drinking red wine with friends and telling stories.

I always loved animals. And when I was ten, I decided I had to go to Africa and live with animals and write books about them.

To me, trees are living beings and they have their own sort of personalities.

It is these undeniable qualities of human love and compassion and self-sacrifice that give me hope for the future. We are, indeed, often cruel and evil. Nobody can deny this. We gang up on each one another, we torture each other, with words as well as deeds, we fight, we kill. But we are also capable of the most noble, generous, and heroic behavior.

The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves.

We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place--or not to bother