You better not mess with chimps. They are much stronger than humans.

I think we must cling to the hope that we can see in the great heroism, the bravery of the firemen and policemen, and the outpouring of caring and concern that has come pouring in from around the world.

I have found that to love and be loved is the most empowering and exhilarating of all human emotions.

We have turned away from the natural world. Instead, it's all about money and power.

If we do not do something to help these creatures, we make a mockery of the whole concept of justice.

For those who have experienced the joy of being alone with nature there is really little need for me to say much more; for those who have not, no words of mine can ever describe the powerful, almost mystical knowledge of beauty and eternity that come, suddenly, and all unexpected.

It's not Africa that is destroying the African rainforest, it's selling concessions to timber companies that are not African, they are from the developed world - Japan, America, Germany, Britain.