There are good mothers and bad ones, but most of them are somewhere in-between.

The most important thing is to actually think about what you do. To become aware and actually think about the effect of what you do on the environment and on society. That's key, and that underlies everything else.

If you do microcredit with men, they tend to quickly drink it. They don't pay you back.

When I began in 1960, individuality wasn't an accepted thing to look for; it was about species-specific behaviour. But animal behaviour is not hard science. There's room for intuition.

It would be absolutely useless for any of us to work to save wildlife without working to educate the next generation of conservationists.

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.

Some people actually do not like animals - hard for me to understand, but true.