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

Women tend to be more intuitive, or to admit to being intuitive, and maybe the hard science approach isn't so attractive. The way that science is taught is very cold. I would never have become a scientist if I had been taught like that.

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

Empathy is really important.. Only when our clever brain and our human heart work together in harmony can we achieve our full potential.

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

My family has very strong women. My mother never laughed at my dream of Africa, even though everyone else did because we didn't have any money, because Africa was the 'dark continent', and because I was a girl.

My favorite animals are dogs.