My mission is to create a world where we can live in harmony with nature. And can I do that alone? No. So there is a whole army of youth that can do it. So I suppose my mission is to reach as many of those young people as I can through my own efforts.

Animals were my passion from even before I could speak apparently. When I was about 10, 11 I fell in love with Tarzan.

The refugees flee to protect their families from violence; the Europeans, on the other hand, fear for their jobs that they need to feed their families.

It has actually been suggested that warfare may have been the principle evolutionary pressure that created the huge gap between the human brain and that of our closest living relatives, the anthropoid apes. Whole groups of hominids with inferior brains could not win wars and were therefore exterminated.

Here we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet we have?

You can't do everything. You can't do health and forestry and agriculture. You've got to focus and do one or the other.

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