We could change the world tomorrow if all the millions of people around the world acted the way they believe.

We are always talking about how we can get more environmental and humanitarian education. It is about listening to the voice of young people - how they feel, and what would be most meaningful for them.

It may sound trite, but young people really are the future.

The chimpanzees taught me a lot about nonverbal communication. The big difference between them and us is that they don't have spoken language. Everything else is almost the same: Kissing, embracing, swaggering, shaking the fist.

There are many animal-welfare groups that sometimes seem to forget that human beings are animals too, that we need to include them in our sphere of compassion.

I don't care two hoots about civilization. I want to wander in the wild.

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.