I still think we are smart enough to not destroy planet Earth, our only home.

Well, in some ways we're not successful at all. We're destroying our home. That's not a bit successful.

In a very unscientific statement, I feel that there's been a disconnect between this clever brain and the heart.

If everybody on the planet today had the same standard of living as the average European or American, we would need three new planets. But we don't even have one new planet. We have this one, and with the way we're polluting it, the shrinking water resources, the climate change, the experimentation with plants... the outlook is grim.

Be assured that our individual actions, collectively, make a huge difference.

I got to Africa. I got the opportunity to go and learn, not about any animal, but chimpanzees. I was living in my dream world, the forest in Gombe National Park in Tanzania. It was Tanganyika when I began.

I am living in the Africa I have always longed for, always felt stirring in my blood.