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

You aren't going to save the world on your own. But you might inspire a generation of kids to save it for all of us. You would be amazed at what inspired children can do.

Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don't change.

However much you know giraffes, to see one in the wild for the first time feels prehistoric.

What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.

If harsher laws are put in place, less will dare to break them.

There isn't a sharp line dividing humans from the rest of the animal kingdom. All the time, we find animals doing things that, in our arrogance, we thought were just human.