To reconnect with nature is key if we want to save the planet.

And always I have this feeling--which may not be true at all--that I am being used as a messenger.

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

Chimps are brutal, and it is so deliberate. The males go out and get near the boundary of their territory. And they walk very silently trying hard not to make any noise. They will climb into a tree and stare out over hostile territory for hours. They are waiting for the right opportunity. And then they attack.

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

Chimps act the way they feel unless they are afraid of reprisal if they do so. But that doesn't apply to humans.

When I look back over my life it's almost as if there was a plan laid out for me - from the little girl who was so passionate about animals who longed to go to Africa and whose family couldn't afford to put her through college. Everyone laughed at my dreams. I was supposed to be a secretary in Bournemouth.